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 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