Internet Technologies
With the growing popularity and use of the Internet, technologies in this field
must continue to grow and change to meet needs for both businesses and
customers. Through web technologies such as XML and ASP, people are able
to access information that was previously unavailable to the public.
These technologies also provide a great service to content providers and
servers because of the ease of use, and power of these applications. In
theory, once a stable application has been written, it can serve it's
designated purpose to infinite users until there is a need for a new version,
or cosmetic changes. This greatly reduces the burden on companies to look
up information or deal with each customer on an individual basis.
XtendedMarkupLanguage
XML is basically nothing more than a container for data. The best thing
about XML is that it defines a clear structure and set of rules for all data
that will be contained in it. This allows developers to design
applications that can accept these pre-formatted data containers so they do not
have to worry about invalid data. XML also serves as a tool to reduce the
amount of resources needed to run an application because of it's ability to use
and re-use variables in code and change them dynamically.
ActiveServerPages
ASP is an emerging internet technology because of it's wide range of features
and the fact that it's output can be seen on any web browser. ASP is a
coding language that allows developers to use conditional logic on data and
generate HTML. This allows developers to design applications that are
personalized for each user and can change the content of a web site
dynamically. ASP is also very powerful because of it's ability to
interact with SQL servers. This gives users the ability to query and
modify a database from anywhere in the world with an internet
connection and a web browser.
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