Application Server

[dominic42]

ok here is my first newbie novice question.

dreamweaver is asking me to choose a server model and is giving me three choices asp.2.0,jsp.1 and coldfusion 4.0 which one do i choose and what is the difference between the three? now before i get bombarded with searching ethics iv tried searching the forum and searched dreamweavers site for the answer but couldnt find an answer that is clear to my simple mind.

thanks

dom

[Dennis]

What kinda of application would you be writing? Are you going to use a database?

 

Asp is usually associated with Microsoft, eg VB language, asp.net

 

You'll need to know java skills to use jsp.

 

While coldfusion is Macromedia's equilavent of the above two.

 

However, why not use PHP since you are hosting with TCH; and its easy to learn. Furthermore, if you look hard enuff, there are a lot of extensions for PHP in DW where most of the basic things you'll want to do with a web application can be found.

 

Dennis

[shakes]

my best gues is you want none of the above. The only reason you would want a 'server model' would be if you're building a dynamic site with one of those languages. as far as I know, asp and cold fusion don't work on TCH (don't know about jsp).

 

like dennis said, those are all different languages for coding dynamic sites. they work together with HTML. HTML alone provides static content to users ... mix one of these languaegs and you can serve up dynamic information based on a user's actions (or whatever else for that matter)

 

a quick run down:

 

ASP - Microsoft product. i don't think anything else needs to be said there. A lot of people use it but it's usually because either they don't know better, it's a business that thinks it has to use M$, or they have no soul.

 

JSP - Java based scripting language. from what I understand, JSP pages are precompiled and therefore execute faster? But I think there's a good bit of investing that has to go into using jsp (I haven't researched this much)

 

CFM - A macromedia product that runs off of Cold Fusion server. I dont' know much abuot this one either ... i hear it's expensive but powerful.

 

PHP - A web scripting language created and maintained by the open source community. totally free. absolutely awesome. it really is just as good, if not better, than ASP. If you want to do dynamic pages, this is the place to start. There's a ton of books and online resources available.

 

hope that cleared some things up.

[dominic42]

thanks for the replys your answers have helped me understand a little better. im thinking i might just be better off uploading through the cpanel. once my domain is set up.

[Deverill]

You can use the DreamWeaver FTP facility to keep your files up to date. I use it all the time with DW4. It's good when you want to synchronize which checks the dates on all files and tells you which ones need to be sent to the server and then *click* they're on their way.

 

On DW4 you just go to your site definition and click on the Remote category and fill in the blanks. I assume MX would be similar if you have that flavor.