Summary
JavaScript is a Jack-of-all-trades scripting language. It works well with HTML, DHTML, and most middleware languages such as PHP, CGI, and ASP. What’s more, as seen in this chapter, JavaScript works with compiled languages such as Java to act as an event handler for methods and as a detector of a browser’s capability to detect Java.
ColdFusion has integrated JavaScript into the heart of its language. Not only can ColdFusion server-side scripts include JavaScript, but ColdFusion has added keywords to the JavaScript lexicon for enhancing its role as a database middleman.
Microsoft’s ASP.NET, on the other hand, might not have a role for JavaScript. At this stage of ASP.NET’s development, it is difficult to say with certainty, but most of ...
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