System alerts that enable administrators to broadcast messages to application users and track who has received what messages. Why Developers Like ASPs ASPs give programmers instant gratification. We never have to wait for them to be compiled nor manage any machine code files. We just edit, save and hit the reload button on our Web browser. And IIS 4.0 with Visual Interdev 6.0 supports an effective, albeit difficult to configure, visual debugging environment.
ASPs make it easier to develop database schema-driven applications.
But most ASP developers write their ASPs using VBscript. The vocabulary one needs to know before you can express yourself in VBscript 3.1 is a small fraction of the size of Microsoft's Visual Basic 6.0. That's because the elements of your HTML, Java or JavaScript user interface are created in-line with the processing logic. You don't have to make references to object methods or properties that are declared in a separate view. Thus, it is easier to generate GUI properties from database properties.