[Dominic Harr]

Absolutely correct. I had an application that took me eight weeks to code and test in ASP.
Converting it to ASP.NET took eight hours.
Rewriting the whole thing in Java would have taken at least two weeks, maybe longer.

Um, I don't mean to be cheeky, really, but correct me if I'm wrong -- it sounds like perhaps you would have saved yourself 75% of your bosses time and money if you had just done it in Java to begin with?

Altho, from your description of the app, it would have taken you about 3-4 days in Java. That's one servlet. Or am I mistaken?

I honestly don't mean to be dense, if I'm missing something. It's just an odd thing you said.

[Bush2000]

I honestly don't mean to be dense...

We know it's not intentional. You can't help a low IQ any more than I can help pointing it out...

[Mr. Jeeves]

Altho, from your description of the app, it would have taken you about 3-4 days in Java.

Except that we are an all-Microsoft shop with no Java expertise on staff (except me, and mine is dated). Java would have been a better solution for the original ASP application, but I can't see it being an improvement over the ASP.NET version.