Java Server Pages

This article has described the key Web technologies URIs, HTTP, and HTML. Since the creation of the Web many other technical innovations (e.g.. Active Server Pages, browser scripting languages, Java Applets, etc.) have con-ttibuted to ensuring its popularity and ubiquity. The three technologies discussed here, however, are the ones that provide the basis for the deployment of all Web-based software. They continue to develop as a result of commercial pressure or via the standardization efforts of W3C. 

When the button "submit smiles is pressed, the SMILES string is sent to the web server of Molsoft, converted to 3D, and the 3D structure is displayed in a java molecule viewer on an automatically created web page (see Figure 2-139). Unfortunately, the Molsoft server does not support downloading of the 3D structures in a standard file format. 

ColdFusion MX 6.1 is one example of a Web application server. Other examples are CGI and ASP.NET. These examples of server-side technologies are more secure because individual clients do not have any direct access to the code. Java libraries can be imported into Web pages by using ColdFusion. ColdFusion was created by Macromedia in 2003, and is supported by the operating systems Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Linux 8 and 9, and Solaris 9. ColdFusion s compiler can take Java hyte code and directly compile it into ColdFusion code, which speeds up the Web ps e interactions. 

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