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Thursday, January 19, 2006
The Need for a New ASP Model (Chapter 1)
It was evident that Microsoft would require a fundamental change to bring ASP up to the standard of industrial-strength programming. Active Server Pages was a technology based on the foundations of COM. ActiveX and COM technology provided much of its strength, but also many of its limitations. Microsoft would need to have a long hard look at COM to see how it could improve, and these changes would be bound to affect ASP. At the same time,Microsoft realized that the developers’ playing field was changing, with new standards arriving all the time, particularly in information-sharing and distributed applications using XML, such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and XML-RPC.Web services were becoming all the rage; Java was everywhere, and XML was taking the developer community by storm.A new version of ASP was not going to be enough to meet these demands; the changes must be more far-reaching if they were not just going to catch up but also take the lead against such tough challenges. ASP and Windows DNA, being based on early 1990’s COM and Win32 API technologies, did not provide a very coherent technical architecture roadmap for modern distributed applications, whereas with Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Sun had a suite of technologies that developers could follow, starting small with Standard Edition projects and scaling up to full Enterprise JavaBeans.
In today’s world, we do not have to contend just with different Web browsers but also with different distribution channels and modes of operation, with mobile phones and computers, interactive digital TV, intelligent appliances, digitally networked homes, and possibly moving from Web pages to disposable applications and Web services.
No doubt, as Microsoft was looking at their own technologies they must have analyzed the competition. As they announced the .NET framework, they also introduced a new language for the twenty-first century, C#. C# and .NET would address all of the criticisms, provide for a whole new way of looking at applications and the Web, and replace everything that had gone before, including Microsoft’s flagships Visual C++,Visual Basic, and Active Server Pages.
In today’s world, we do not have to contend just with different Web browsers but also with different distribution channels and modes of operation, with mobile phones and computers, interactive digital TV, intelligent appliances, digitally networked homes, and possibly moving from Web pages to disposable applications and Web services.
No doubt, as Microsoft was looking at their own technologies they must have analyzed the competition. As they announced the .NET framework, they also introduced a new language for the twenty-first century, C#. C# and .NET would address all of the criticisms, provide for a whole new way of looking at applications and the Web, and replace everything that had gone before, including Microsoft’s flagships Visual C++,Visual Basic, and Active Server Pages.
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