[CLUE-Tech] ASP alternative.

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:39:39 -0700 David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net>
wrote:

> I know a little about ASP, and version 2 of ASP .NET seems to be a 
> considerable improvement (time will tell, it's alpha at the moment). 
> But I could use some of its functionality.  So what's the best way to 
> get that on Linux?
> 
> Here's an example.  In ASP, a few lines of code run a database query and 
> a few more hook it into a "datagrid control" (most of that can be done 
> drag and drop but that isn't too important).
> 
> Then the datagrid can be placed on a web page (it looks like an html 
> element) and when rendered it will display a table with the results of 
> the query.  It isn't terribly hard to make the table alternate row 
> colors, have a header and footer, or sort by column when the user clicks 
> it (they even do autoformatting ala Word, but that's just automatic code 
> generation).  And you can put your input form and your output data on 
> the same page pretty easily.
> 
> So what can I use on Linux to easily build forms that enter and display 
> data?
> 
> I expect that JSP can do this.  When I used it a few years ago they had 
> the technology, just not a good library of components.  Maybe they're 
> better now.
> 
> PHP pages seem similar to ASP (less so to ASP .NET), but it doesn't seem 
> quite object oriented enough to me.  Still...
> 
> I recently used Perl's DBI module.  That was cool, it was like my second 
> day of Perl and I managed to insert data from a text file in to several 
> related tables.  I guess PL/pgSQL might have done the same, but probably 
> reading from the file would have been harder.  So it would be cool to be 
> able to use Perl objects in a web page.
> 
> Another possibility is Zope, I guess.  But it looked a lot like early 
> JSP when I looked at it a while ago.
> 
> I guess that if I had to start from scratch and make my own components 
> I'd use JSP (what a waste, everyone else must be doing the same thing). 
>   So who knows a better way?
> 

Just an FYI.  There are two projects to open up .net to the linux world - XIMIAN
has MONO, and GNU has gnuSOMETHING (memory fails me).  MONO at least has a C#
compiler and some .net stuff up and kicking.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.