On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Tom Laurie wrote:
> I call ASP the poor man's GGI programming. The latest buzz word is "N-Tier"
> which allows users to connect to an application running on a server using a
> very thin client (even just a browser). If you have NT running IIS then you
> have the ability to run ASP. Basically you can have your web pages retrieve
> and add data to an ODBC connected database with ease. You program the ASP
> pages with VB Script. For organizations running NT it is a very good
> solution. If you are running a LINUX box you can purchase ASP support from
> ChiliSoft.
>
The ASP/VBScript/Perl combination is hardly a poor man's CGI solution.
It's design is actually very nice, the only problem I have with it is the
actual implementation (ie. Windows/ISS).
Connecting to ODBC databases is indeed a common task, but it's hardly all
the technology is good for.
If you're doing it properly, you'll put the bulk of your logic and
functionality into a COM object (I wrote mine in VC, but you can just as
easily use VB or Java) and use that in your ASP code. That's one of those
tiers you mentioned.
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