ASP Programming - Overviewby Jini M R (Software Programmer, Excellone Technologies)
ASP, the Active Server Pages, is a programming
environment, which became accessible to the software developers
in October 1996, through the release of public beta for Internet
Information Server 3 (IIS). ASP, the compile-free, text-based scripting
language for creating dynamic websites was until then known as "Denali".
Microsoft later introduced ASP version 2 in August 1997 as a part
of IIS 4 and with IIS 5. Windows 2000 ASP is currently at version
3.
ASP Programming aids the software / web developer
to have fast and easy creation of intranets, extranets and dynamic
database driven websites. This server side technology makes it possible
to create dynamic HTML web pages and binds together the capabilities
of different COM objects. VB Script is the default scripting language
for ASP. But there is a choice for scripting languages, which includes
Jscript, Perl or any other server side scripting. ASP environments
are also available for other operating systems such as Chili soft
ASP, which will run on operating systems such as Unix.
Features
- The scripting logic can be interfaced to a number of ASP intrinsic
objects, which makes the web development simple.
- External COM compliant software components can be interfaced
to ASP, which gives more power to ASP Scripting.
- Since ASP is dynamically generated, users are not able to see
the source code and thus it is secure.
- All scripting code runs on the server and the browser only gets
a normal HTML web page as a result of server side scripting. Thus,
ASP is browser independent.
Dynamically generated ASP Programming can create
a phenomenal programming environment for you.
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