Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Active Server Pages (ASP)

Active Server Pages (ASP), also known as Classic ASP, was Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages. Initially released as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS) via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, it was subsequently included as a free component of Windows Server.

Developing rich functionality in ASP websites is enabled by the active scripting engine's support of the Component Object Model (COM), with each object providing a related group of frequently-used functions and data attributes.

Scripting Languages

ASP/ASP.NET (*.asp/*.aspx)
ColdFusion Markup Language (*.cfm)
Java via JavaServer Pages (*.jsp)
PHP (*.php)
Perl (*.pl)
Python (*.py)
Ruby_(programming_language) (*.rb)
JavaScript (*.js)