Creating Web-Based applications that integrate well into traditional business applications can be difficult. Windows 2000 Server overcomes this burden by sharing internet-aware applications to the web and eliminates awkward bridges between internal and external processes. The key features of Web-Based Applications are listed below:



Active Server Pages

Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) lets developers create dynamic content by using server-side scripting and components to create browser-independent dynamic content. ASP provides an easy-to-use alternative to Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and Internet Server Application Program Interface (ISAPI) by letting content developers embed any scripting language or server component into their HTML pages. ASP pages provide standards-based database connectively and the ability to customize content for different browsers ASP also provides error-handling capabilities for Web-based applications



Performance-Enhanced Objects

ASP provides performance-enhanced versions of its popular installable components. These objects scale reliably in a wide range of the Web application environments.



XML Integration

Just as HTML lets developers describe the format of a web document, Extensible Markup language (XML) lets them describe complex data structures. Developers can share this information across a variety of applications, clients, and server. Using the new Microsoft XML parser, developers can create applications that enable their Web server to exchange XML-formatted data with both Microsoft Internet Explorer and any server capable of parsing XML.



Windows Script components

ASP supports the new scripting technology, windows Script Components. This lets developers turn business logic script procedures into reusable COM components for web applications and other COM-complaint programs.



Browser Capabilities Component

ASP has a new feature for determining the exact capabilities of a browser. when a browser sends a cookie describing its capabilities, developers can create an instance of The Browser Capabilities Component that retrieves the browser's properties as returned by the cookie. developers can use this feature to discover
a browser's capabilities and adjust an application accordingly.



ASP Self-Tuning

ASP now senses when executing requests are blocked by external resources and automatically provides more threads to simultaneously execute additional requests while continuing processing. if the CPU becomes overburdened. ASP curtails the number of threads in order to reduce the constant switching that occurs when too many non-blocking requests are executing simultaneously.



Encoded ASP Scripts

Traditionally, web developers have been unable to prevent others from reading their scripting code. ASP now supports a new script encoding utility provided with Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) and Microsoft JScript 5.0. Web developers can apply an encoding  scheme to both client and server-side scripts that makes the programmatic logic unreadable. When unencoded, the logic appears in standard ASCII characters. encoded scripts are decoded at run time by the script engine, so there's no need for a separate utility. although this feature is not intended as a secure, encrypted solution, it can prevent most casual users from browsing or copying scripts.



Application Protection

IIS 5.0 offers improved protection and increased reliability for web applications. by default, IIS runs all applications in a common or pooled process that is separate from core IIS processes.



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