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An HTTP transaction consists of a header followed optionally by an empty line and some data. The header will specify such things as the action required of the s erver, or the type of data being returned, or a status code. The header lines received from the client, if any, are placed by th e […]

What Are the Advantages of Servlets Over Traditional CGI? Convenient. Hey, you already know Java. Why learn Perl too? Besides the convenience of being able to use a familiar language, servlets have an extensive infrastructure for automatically parsing and decoding HTML form data, reading and setting HTTP headers, handling cookies, tracking sessions, and many other […]

What is JSP? Java Server Pages (JSP) is a technology that lets you mix regular, static HTML with dynamically-generated HTML. Servlets are Java technology’s answer to CGI programming; JSP is a technology that lets users mix regular, static HTML with dynamically-generated HTML. This tutorial discusses the basics of Java Servlets and JSP, and the advantages […]

Servlets are Java technology’s answer to CGI programming; JSP is a technology that lets users mix regular, static HTML with dynamically-generated HTML. This tutorial discusses the basics of Java Servlets and JSP, and the advantages of using each of these technologies. What Are the Advantages of JSP? JSP vs. Server-Side Includes (SSI). SSI is a […]

What’s Really New? CFML, Allaire ColdFusion’s markup language has also become a part of its parent company’s Java strategy. And last but not least, there are a few open source scripting languages like PHP or PERL. Indeed, PHP has been extremely successful and appears to be a real contender. Scripting tools are often considered entry-level […]

What’s Happening? Once you are familiar with a product that is generating good results, it’s worth trying to stick with it to capitalize on the investment. Such Web development tool pioneers as Sapphire/Web, WebObjects, WebLogic, and Cold Fusion are good products to extend from use in intranet applications to use in e-business applications. Of course, […]

Conclusion As providers of the technical infrastructure needed to build applications, application server vendors could be considered the real losers in the thriving Internet economy. Newcomers to this market have quite a hard time. Indeed, the market leaders have already been identified (i.e., BEA, IBM, SUN and Microsoft); a few gumption-filled challengers have stormed the […]

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By Tobias Ratschiller s Traditionally, developers have used CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts for interaction with users, querying databases, and so forth. However, because CGI scripts are separate software programs that get executed as stand-alone processes whenever a user requests the script, scalability is lacking – CGI scripts could quickly consume all available memory and […]

By Tobias Ratschiller s Weswill now discuss how PHP meets these challenges. s The first advantage of PHP is one common to many Open Source projects: Itsdelivered, while other technologies were still “vaporware.” PHP pre-dates ASP, Mod_Perl, and ColdFusion by at least 12 months. Over the years, PHP had the opportunity to strengthen its core […]

By Tobias Ratschiller s Perl is a general scripting language; Java is a full-fledged, complex programming language; Visual Basic Script and JSscript havesbeen post-integrated into ASP. PHP, however, was built with the needs of Web developers in mind. In Web application development, there is no itch PHP cannot scratch. Unlike other cumbersome, overhead-laden approaches, PHP […]

By Tobias Ratschiller s Besides databases, PHP supports most current Internet standards including IMAP, FTP, POP, XML, WDDX, LDAP, NIS, and SNMP. For corporate and IT needs, this simply means that PHP is able to talk to different standards and technologies with ease: All from one common tool set, without requiring expensive third-party modules.