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Chili!Soft ASP Features

Chili!Soft ASP is a platform-independent implementation of ASP. This topic describes three of its key features: cross-platform support, development ease, and extensibility.

Cross-platform Support: Chili!Soft ASP runs on a wide variety of operating systems and Web servers. Different versions of Chili!Soft ASP run on Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms, and no code changes are necessary to move a Chili!Soft ASP application from one platform to another. This enables you to:

·              Develop ASP applications on inexpensive Windows NT workstations and deploy them on the operating system that meets your needs

·              Consolidate multiple Windows NT-based servers onto fewer, more manageable UNIX-based servers

·              Easily develop ASP applications and deploy them on the operating system and Web server of your choice

Development Ease: Developing applications with Chili!Soft ASP is easy, thanks to its support for:

·              VBScript and JavaScript scripting languages

·              Built-in state and session management

·              Easy database access

Extensibility: Chili!Soft ASP applications are extensible via technology such as:

·              COM (Chili!Soft Chili!Beans support enables you to use your Java objects with ASP applications)

·              Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)

·              Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)

This enables you to encapsulate business logic using powerful programming languages, connect to transaction and application services provided by third-party application servers, connect to legacy systems, and re-use existing code.

See also:

·              What Is ASP? in this chapter

·              What Is Chili!Soft ASP? in this chapter

·              Chapter 4: Building a Chili!Soft ASP Application

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