by 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.