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ALP is an environment which
implements popular WEB
application development
techniques for desktop and
stand alone programming. The
major technologies supported
natively are ASP and CGI
(through CGI - PHP, Perl and
many others). ALP needs no
network, nor any parts of
any server software. It
allows independent
applications to be developed
and distributed in various
ways - installations,
autoruns and so on. Also it
ships with an mini-installer
program you can use for your
applications, ALPFrame
viewer WEB browser that
extends the typical IE
DHTML and also allows
ALP engine and its run-time
libraries run on-the-fly
from autorun CD-s. Rich
run-time library is supplied
which has powerful
replacements of FSO,
Dictionary objects,
independent SQL database
engine, NEtworking
components and allows even
such untypical for ASP
applications features like:
running background threads,
manage huge structured data,
access files on any level
(text, binary, as records -
DB-like), obtain various
system information and many
others.
All the
components together form an
environment familiar for the
existing WEB developers and
also provides high level of
compatibility with IIS. In
almost all the cases this
allows the developers build
applications that run on
stand alone machines and
Microsoft IIS without or
with minimal changes.
ALP 1.2 adds more to the
internal run-time library -
including indendent database
engine, networking
components, string
formatting utilities and
more.
The new security
features do much more than
just give the developers
ability to align their
applications with XP SP2.
They give real means of
making their applications
inpenetrable at the cost of
a few configuration
settings, without need to
implement anything in their
code. The ideas may be
inspired from the XP SP2 but
their implementations work
even on Windows 95!
Date: Jun, 03 2005 |