Migrating from ASP to JSP

Question

Hi all, I'm new to this forum.
I'm currently evaluating a migration from IIS to Webserver 7 (Solaris).
Right now we have a bunch of Unix/BSD doing inverse-proxy on the Windows ones, and in order to simplify, I got this brilliant - that's sarcasm - idea... I promised more speed and security, without too much difficulty...
Next, I installed Solaris 10 on one server, and after setup webserver 7, I realized that it's not possible (at least at the moment) to install ASP with version 7.
I already was willing to work the code in order to adapt it from the Microsoft ASP to the Sun one.
So having to decide between go back to webserver 6.x or adapt the ASP code to JSP, I'm considering the last one. I belong to those who think a native solution is better than any pluggin or something like that.
So far, so good... but then I got stuck. In the whole application (in fact by my suggestion and insistence - my big mouth again -) we used the getstring method from ADODB a lot, which returns the values in the recordset into a formatted string, based on patterns. We can get XML, HTML table, JS arrays, etc. in the blink of an eye.
I tried to google it, but find anything in JSP that allows me to do this without any loop, the (BIG) improvement in performance (my main argument for the change) was dramatic once we take out the loops, and it allowed us to make deeper changes in the code. They can beat-the-damm-loop-out-of-me, if I try to get those loops back�
Does somebody knows a workaround in JSP?

Answer 1

Thanks for your quick response.
Usually there is no problem with use the output parameter as nvarchar in our Stored Procedures (mssql), in fact I was trying that this weekend as alternative, but this add complexity to the SP and drop the performance.
I guess I can take the time to optimize the SQL code, and maintaining backward compatibility for any other system that uses it, but there is a lot of another applications (desktop and web) that use those procedures, and the cost is overwhelming.
Is a lot better to reimplement the "while (Recordset.next()){" instead of mess with the backbone of our applications.
If there is no replacement for the ASP getstring, maybe I need to downgrade to webserver 6.x, (in order to install ASP) or try to implement some similar myself in JSP as a class or something, and test the performance.