ASP:-ACTIVE SERVER PAGE
- In the begining,there was HTML,HTML admirably serves the purpose of displaying information as long as you aren't too picky about exactly how that information looks.
- ASP is an attempt to merge the advantage of HTML with the need to provide up-to-date,individualized information & to make users active participants in the web rather than passive viewers.ASP takes the web which is a relatively passive medium like T.V. & provides the capability to make it an active medium like other computer application.
- At the same time,ASP gives developers a way to deliver such application in a centralized manner.Rather than installing a program on each user's machine,ASP lets people run program on a remote server.
- Finally there's a huge difference between providing content to users & obtaining information from users.HTML lets users send data to the server using forms.
- Simple Text Processing
- User ASP script for simple text processing.This is ASP's strong point,as it usually involve a series of simple decisions about how to format response.Avoid using ASP script for complex string manipulations.
- Complex Decision Making
- Use ASP for complex decision making computers are extremely fast at making simple decision & ASP scripts although they are not the fastest language around are more than adequate for making such decisions.when you combine decision-making with text processing , you have the buiding blocks to create personalised interactive applications.
- Intermediary Between Browser & COM compnents
- As your decision-making & data processing requirements grow,you can purchase or build COM components.AS you increase your use of server based COM component ASP becomes the intermediary between the browser & there back end components.
- ASP is an interpreted ,not a compiled language therefore it's inherently slower than other, complied solution.
- ASP doesn't have strong variable typing.All variables are variant are convenient but are also larger & slower than typed variables.
- ASP must insert includes files each time they're used.
- ASP to eats all objets variables as late bound objects.It must appear information about the objects for each property or method access, which slows down the response.
- A way to save individualized data for each user.
- Access to file system.
- Access to database.
- A means to launch & control any component object model.
- ASP address all of there concerns & that's one of the reason why the topic is so large HTML authors can use ASP as a decision maker.
- ASP is Language-Independent:-
- The ASP engine doesnt depend on a single language.In fact, the ASP engine doesn't actually execute the code you write.ASP is actually execute the code you write .ASP is a language-Independent scripting host.
- ASP is For Non-Programmers:-
- Programmers used machine language ,fliping switches to manipulate bits & bytes assembly language changed all that assembler was the glue that let non-programmers manipulate the bits & bytes easily....
