Web server scripting advantages

Web server scripting advantage

Server side scripting using simple interpreted scripts have several advantages over compiled high level languages.

These include:

1. Easy for users

Because the processing of the page is done on the server side, the client is not required to support client side scripting, hence plugins like java and flash may not be required. Hence a wider audience can be reached

2. Easy for client machines

Due to replacing client side scripting with server side scripting the file size may be smaller and hence the load time maybe quicker, this depends on the processing time at the server end. So generally if the server is faster then there is a less load on the client computer and hence older client machine will function better and a greater audience will be reached.

3. More secure

By pre-processing the web page the client only sees the output, the HTML. All processing scripts are hidden from the client.

4. Simple for programmers

Scripts give a simple interface for programmers to use and the complicated API pluming is hidden in the scripting functions. Thus making these scripts:

–easy to learn and use

–minimum programming knowledge or experience required

–allow complex tasks to be performed in relatively few steps

5. Ease of Development

  Due to development is simpler, generally only an editor and an FTP application creation is quick and easy, normally ant editor will do. If an error occurs just edit the file, upload and the job is complete, therefore:

–editing and deploying code is fast.

–allow simple creation and editing in a variety of text editors