| JSP Technology | ASP Technology | Definition |
| Any Web Server, including Apache Tomcat, Weblogic, Jboss, IIS | Microsoft IIS or Personal Web Server | Supporting Web Server |
| Most popular platforms, including the Solaris Operation System, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Other UNIX platform implementations | Microsoft Windows | Platform Support |
| request | Request | Access to request information. This includes such items as input/form parameters, HTTP request header information etc. |
| response | Response | Access to response information and construction. This includes output MIME type and other HTTP response headers as well as the output stream itself. |
| session | Session | Access to session information. |
| application | Application |
Access to application information
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| JSP Technology | ASP Technology | Definition |
| out | Response.write | Access to the response output stream. JSP provides a convenience object for direct output to this stream, whereas ASP uses Response object method. |
