Difference between jsp and asp.net

I am student of B.Sc.(I.T.) studying in Patkar College which is located in Goregaon East (Mumbai) in Maharashtra. I have programming subjects such as Visual Basic, C, C++, Core Java, Advanced Java. In Advanced Java we have to learn about JSP ( JAVA SERVER PAGE ). But I have also heard about ASP (ACTIVE SERVER PAGE ). What is the difference betwen them?

Java Server Page or JSP is one the technologies of Java which is a product of Sun Solaris. We need Tomcat or other web servers to run Java Server Page. Whereas Active Server Page or ASP is a technology from the house of Microsoft. IIS is used to run Active Server Page. JSP is is entirely based on Java programming language. Whereas ASP is based on .Net Platform created by Microsoft.

Java Server Page and Active Server Page are both server side application. But they do differ from from each other in a sense. Both the above languages JSP and ASP are used to write scripts on the server side. ASP does scripting of two languages known as J-Script and VB-Script. As against this, JSP is uses Java programming language to code rather than writing scripts for any language.The ASP.net gives response while JSP.net is used to request when accessing the information and while building new things.

ASP is not reusable while JSP is reusable and it can use Cross-Platform Components: JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans, custom JSP tags. ASP Works with any ODBC-compliant database whereas JSP works with any ODBC- and JDBC technology-compliant database. JSP has an added advantage over ASP since it is based on Java programming languages. The advantages of JSP over ASP are as follows: JSP is reusable across platforms, JSP technology enables programmers to extend the JSP tags available, JSP applications are easier to maintain when compared to ASP based applications. JSP can be used on Most popular platforms, including the Solaris Operating Environment, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and other UNIX platform implementations as aganist this ASP can be used only on Microsoft Windows platform.