The Future According to ASP+

ASP+ will have better support for large web farms. In fact,

Microsoft is pushing this idea pretty hard. ASP+ wants you to

think in terms of multiple servers. As you need more power, just

add an extra server. The whole .Net framework has solidly embraced

this methodology. ASP+ introduces external session state support

providing built-in web farm support. In addition, since all the

components required to support a web farm are built fully optimized

with each other, it will be fast. The end result is that ASP+ will

now equal JSP in its ability to scale to large projects. In fact,

ASP+ will have a cost benefit over JSP since all the components

will be part of your server operating system from Microsoft. In JSP,

you currently need to purchase expensive Server Application servers

to achieve similar results.

4) ASP+ offers many other new features that I will review in more detail

in future issues. For example,

*Built-in object caching and page result caching.

*Built-in XML support for easy handling of XML data sets.

*Server controls which offer fuller interactive controls to

be used on the client page. Initial indications, however,

show these are costly items in terms of round trips to use.

I am finding that ASP+ truly expands what is possible in ASP.

My preliminary conclusion, after looking at ASP+, is the majority