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JAVA vs ASPX
At work we have a few ASPX programs that our crappy IT Department made to do database pulls and generate reports. The ASPX database pulls are ungodly slow and are designed to time-out in 60 seconds (which means we cant generate large reports).
Would JAVA be a better Language to do these Database Pulls?
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Re: JAVA vs ASPX
I'm assuming you're trying to access the database via your web-browser (ASP.Net is used for webpage design)?
I would suggest trying to switch to JS (javascript) or JSP (Java Server Pages). I believe both are supported by all major web-browseers, where-as ASP is only supported on Internet Explorer (don't take my word on this last statement, I've never use ASP.Net before, but I have seen many webpages built on this technology that don't function correctly on Firefox). IE is a very slow web-browser, where-as other web browsers (notably Google Chrome or Firefox) are much quicker.
Another potential bottle-neck is your network speed. If you have a ton of data but a slow connection, you will only be able to pull that information so fast regardless of what software is running. Network speed can be affected by a few different things:
1. Hardware of the server.
2. Hardware of the client.
3. Hardware of any connections between the server and the client (routers, ISP, proxies, etc.)
Re: JAVA vs ASPX
Wouldn't say one way or another, aspx shouldn't be slow unless its doing tons of work, the script is written poorly, or you have network issues. If its a lot of work then your java program will also be doing a lot of work. If you want your program/script to be portable across platforms, then you may wish to go that way. I'd say, at least as a start, look at the aspx code, profile it, and make it better as opposed to reinventing the wheel.
Re: JAVA vs ASPX
ASP is interpreted server side, so it should spit out html/js/css/xml/etc.. code and be cross-browser compliant.Originally Posted by helloworld922
Re: JAVA vs ASPX
You could of course port this over to Java instead but if the database is not up to scratch as in indexed properly you'll still end up getting timeouts or exceptions.
It might be worth while having a look at the entire solution and then re-implement it
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Re: JAVA vs ASPX
Ok, well I guess, for the mean time, no changes will happen. The IT Department that apparently built the programs are not the best. Apart from building programs, they deal with all the technology issues, which is always since stuff keeps breaking... The company I work for doesnt really see the need, nor have the means, to invest in proper programmers, so everyone is left high-and-dry here. I was hired on as a Summer Intern to do some Analysis work, but once they found out I can program well and fast, people around the office have been constantly asking me if I can do stuff, and the company has desided to hire me Part-Time through college since I'm cheap as hell to keep. Because of my status, I dont think I can get my hands on the ASPX code, and even getting exclusive access to their databases probably wont happen. I just wanted to see if I could argue I could make it better, which I have doubt I can.
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