Software Store Network Solutions Project Management Training Internet Services Partners Links Homepage Programming Solutions Perl has quickly become the most popular way to write CGI programs and interfaces. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. Perl combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people familiar with those languages should have little difficulty with it.
Applets are the result of compiled code, which can run on any web browser or platform.
For example, a servlet might be responsible for taking data in an HTML order-entry form and applying the business logic used to update a company's order database. Servlets are to servers what applets are to browsers. Sassafras Forge relys on ASP technologies to serve dynamic content on the Web. It is not tied to a particular browser, and requires no specific browser. All scripting code runs on server, and the browser just receives resultant HTML, therefore the browser needs no special capabilities.