JSP versus ASP for a Web Application (email convo)

It's ok there's was nothing to apologize to, infact your question makes me laugh out loud because you have asked the same fundamental yet the most debatable question...is JSP better or ASP? (atleast for our project). You have made me once again look into the pros and cons of both these technologies. I also just look into what technology would be most suitable for a web application. (I intend to see this project as a single page web application than multiple pages of a website for sake of simplicity). And verdict is still the same that both technologies can do accomplish it.

From just few days of experience in my other job, since I am working with SQL Server Integration Package (SSIS), I am getting the feeling that only because you are dealing with Excel files, it somewhat tells me you are moving more towards microsoft products, ASP looks more appropriate because Microsoft has already created so many environments for easy integration of many of its services.

Currently if you ask me to create this project in JSP, I would have absolutely no setback (other than looking for other libraries) since I have sufficient experience from school projects. 

Now also consider this: the best of both worlds is also possible. If your server is windows based then I think integration of web app lets say in ASP is still possible if your whole website is JSP based. However !, it is again possible to run application processes purely in Operating System also but that's far fetched at the moment (as in handing of Excel files while server caters front-end web pages to clients). 

As I am learning more about ASP, I am trying to figure out how to create a compact web application such that it conforms to the standards of being integrated to either JSP or ASP technologies (For Ex: i have chosen to  use Javascript instead of ASPs events on webpages for dynamic results).

To conclude to a decision, unless you have someone with a higher expertise than me, I would say since the project scale is small, I think its a better  time than any to figure out which one would work best for us. So in a way, I am asking you to allow me to use JSP first and then ASP. If you let me do that then I can determine that fine line to understand and create a very compact web application. 

Let me know your thoughts.