ASP stands for Active Server Pages. ASP (Active Server Pages)
is an HTML pages that contain fixed scripts. ASP is a Microsoft
Technology. ASP is a program that runs inside IIS (Internet
Information Service). ASP pages contain either server
side or client side scripts, which performs functions such as database
access, page personalization, or interactive functions. An ASP file
is just the same as an HTML file. ASP allow a Web site builder to
dynamically build Web pages by inserting queries to a relational
database in the Web page. ASP is a third-party entity that manages
and distributes software-based services and solutions to customers
across a wide area network from a central data center. Asp's
are a way for companies to outsource some or almost all aspects
of their information technology needs.
- Ease of Use: -Active Server Pages are plain HTML pages
with ASP code embedded into them enclosed in <% and %> tags.
- Language Independence: - ASP is a scripting engine enabling
you to develop in virtually any language of your choice. The two
languages available by default are VBScript and Jscript.
- Short Learning Curve: - Even if you know only HTML, it
will not be difficult for you to learn how to insert ASP commands
into your HTML files.
- Tons of Information: -There are currently more than 150
sites listed in Open Directory's ASP category. Lots of online
magazines will deliver new articles on ASP to your mailbox on
a weekly or even daily basis.
- Huge Community: - There are plenty of professional ASP
developers ready to answer your questions in numerous ASP newsgroups
and forums.
- Low Cost of Ownership: - Nowadays this mainly applies
to site owner, not directly to the developer. Low cost and abundance
of support is just one more reason you can give to your employer/customer
as to why they should do business using ASP.
- Extensibility: -There are virtually no limits to what
can be done with ASP thanks to unlimited extensibility provided
via COM components.
- You Can Get a Good Job: - A search for ASP on high tech
job search engine returned more than 10,000 matches.
There are of course more reasons to develop in ASP, but I hope
these eight were enough to convince you that developing in ASP
can make your life happier and get you to the next level of your
career.
- Dynamically edit, change or add any content of a Web
page.
- Respond to user queries or data submitted from
HTML forms.
- Access any data or databases and return the results
to a browser.
- Customize a Web page to make it more useful for
individual users.
- The advantages of using ASP instead of CGI and Perl are those
of simplicity and speed.
- Provides security since your ASP code cannot be viewed
from the browser.
- Since ASP files are returned as plain HTML, they can be viewed
in any browser.
- ASP is only available for Windows (NT and 95).
- ASP also uses cookies, which means people using the
Lynx browser can't access pages.
- ASP is time consuming, as it needs to investigate other
tools.
- In ASP programming is required.
- ASP contains bad interaction between server and developing
code.
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