Online web application in Java or .NET ? Which is feasible & commercially viable ?

Question

Hi All,

I am grateful to those who are answering my questions. I have an web application which is "Online Reservation System" to be developed. I am looking at possibility of developing it in either Dot NET or Java. I have inclination towards .NET because I am a .NET professional and I find it easy to use. I feel we can develop quicker in .NET than in Java. On the other hand I have to bear the cost of buying a Visual Studio 2005 & probably .NET framework too because I am selling this Web Application.

Can somebody tell me which will be feasible and commercially viable ? That means, from the time of development and till deployment, I want to compare the overheads involved in both the technologies. Do I need to pay anything for using Java ? I am not sure on how to develop in Java.

Please give me complete comparison of .NET & Java

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

.Net Framework is free :-)



As far as I know ASP.NET and PHP are the most widely used server-side scripting languages. I'm working in ASP.NET and it seems like we have quite enough clients :-)



Also, with java you can't program CGI scripts, as java can't access the environment variables.

Answer 2

what you are looking for here is ROI



in a nutshell:



Java is free to download and runs on almost anything. But the tools for it are not as capable as those for .NET - thus you will be faced with longer development times and harder debugging. Java also scales well to very large web apps (but that doesn't sound like what you are doing).



.NET usually costs money to start with, but as the tools and doc support is excellent (compared to java anyway...) your development time is faster. But if you only need a simple web app you may be able to use MS Internet Web Developer - it's a free download.



The choice is yours - if you have employees, the extra programming hours are far more costly than anything else, (this is why I use .NET in my company). But if you only have couple of poeple java's cost saving could help.

Answer 3

of-course j2ee is best.you can you jsp/servlet.it is free available from sun site.you can deploy ur site on tomcat web server which is open source.

u are .net professional then can use asp.net ,j2ee provide more flexibility.Your program will be platform independent from server,data base and platform.