Basic Programming Concepts for Web Applications

Abstract

This part of the book introduces programming concepts for Web applications. We distinguish two different sorts of approaches, basic ones and more complex ones. In this chapter, we will talk about the basic concepts, whereas Chap. 6 will be dedicated to higher level approaches. The big advantage of the solutions presented in this chapter is the ease of cost at which they come. They do not require extensive environments or special infrastructures, but can be realized comparably simply. On the other hand, they only offer basic means for application programming. They cannot compete with high-level approaches when it comes to complex services like transaction management or sophisticated access control mechanisms. Irrespective of their simplicity, some of them can be considered to be as powerful as conventional programming languages. Thus, even complex scenarios might be realized using these simple approaches, avoiding the complex overhead required for higher level technologies.