How J-ASP Works

J-ASP provides ASP to JSP/Servlet Conversion and runtime that allow you to migrate ASP applications and run them on J2EE Platforms. Following figure shows how the J-ASP works when migrating an application and running it on J2EE Platoforms.

Migrating an ASP Application Using J-ASP

J-ASP provides a ASP to JSP/Servlet Conversion tool to migrate an ASP application

• ASP to JSP/Servlet Conversion

  
  

  The Conversion is a GUI-based application. You use it to migrate the ASP application for deployment. After you specify its root directory, output directory, and any virtual directories that it uses, the Conversion:

  • Modifies all URLs that contain the default ASP extension (.asp), changing the extension to the JavaServer Page extension (.jsp) if you want to migrate the ASP application to JSP.
    
    
  • For each ASP file in the application root directory:
    If you want to migrate the ASP Application to JSP, it creates a JSP file.
    If you want to migrate the ASP Application to Servlet, it creates a Java source file, and compiles the Java source file into a Java class file.
    
    
  • Creates a Web Application for the ASP Application , containing all the application files and J-ASP runtime.

  After convert the ASP application, please go to the Output directory, and pack the Output directory to a Web Archive file(.war) using the jar utility.
  
  For example: jar -cvf myapp.war .
  
  

• Running a Migrated Application

  After you convert the application, you must deploy it to the Web Server that supports JSP/Servlet. J-ASP provides a runtime to run the convreted applications. J-ASP Runtime is a collection of Java libraries, it enables the migrated application to run in a J2EE environment, and supports many third-party ASP components, such as: XMLDOM, UPload, SMTP-Mailer etc.