A method and system is provided for using an active server page program in a universal web-based active server page framework. The active server page program has associated recordset objects within an active server page framework. The universal web-based active server page framework has associated dataset objects with data structure requirements which are incompatible with data structure requirements associated with the recordset objects. The method and system communicate recordset objects from the active server page program to a recordset-dataset translation mechanism. The dataset objects communicate between the universal web-based active server page program environment and the recordset-dataset translation mechanism. Translating dataset objects to corresponding recordset objects occurs within the recordset-dataset translation mechanism for transmitting data within the dataset objects to the active server page program of the active server page framework.