Active Server Pages Active Server Pages is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications. The single most important feature of the release of IIS 4.0 for Web developers is the integration of the MTS 2.0. The result is shorter development time, and easier deployment and integration. In the event a component crashes, the server and other applications on your Web server stay running-only the single out of process application dies. IIS automatically restarts the application on the next request.
Crash protection is essential to run business applications reliably on the Web.
You can create ASP scripts that run within a transaction so that if any portion of the script fails, the entire transaction is aborted. Component Load and Unload. You can install, change, or modify the components of your applications on the server without having to stop, and re-start the Web server. MTS automatically manages the components for you, so updates to your Web applications don't prohibit access to your Web server. IIS 4.0 recycles ODBC connections in much the same way that it recycles connections to objects.