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DEFINE ASP


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.

FEATURES OF ASP
  • 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.

BENEFITS OF ASP
  • 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.

DRAWBACKS OF ASP
  • 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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