Development
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Languages Fast becoming the premiere networking language. Not only an object-oriented
language, but also "write once, run anywhere" virtual machine allows shorter
development times across different operating systems and machines. Deliverable as
stand-alone applications or via applets for a web browser. Scripting language based on Java language. Both server-side and
client-side scripts used for development of client/server applications via web browser. One of the best "middleware" languages available, it functions
much as Microsoft's Active Server Pages and Allaire's Coldfusion. Since it runs
on the server side it is completely transparent to the browser and allows
interactive applications to download
and run much faster than Java. It also offers easy to implement database and form
interaction functions. Perl and shell scripts are what most CGI applications are currently written in. Since Perl is a bit slow on the webserver side, we use PHP for most interactive portions of a web site, however, CGI's are occasionally the only way to accomplish certain tasks.
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