SE452: Web Application Technologies [28/29]

CGI - Common Gateway Interface http://www.w3.org/CGI

Proprietary APIs

• NSAPI (Netscape)
• ISAPI (Microsoft)
• WSAPI (O'Reilly)
• ColdFusion (Allaire/MacroMedia)

Server Side Java-Script (iWS)

ASP (Microsoft)

Java Servlets

Servlets vs. CGI

• Efficient
• Standard and platform independent
• Easy to program
• Powerful
• Secure
• Free and standard-conforming servlet engine
• Access to all the Java APIs

Servlets vs. ASP

• similar to Java vs. .Net or VB
• platform independent
• JSP vs. ASP is a better comparison, but J2EE has better separation of concerns
• Access to all the Java APIs