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Server-Side Scripting Languages

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Synonyms

ASP; ASP.NET; CGI; JSF; JSP; Perl; PHP; Ruby on Rails

Glossary

AJAX:

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

CGI:

Common Gateway Interface

HTML:

Hypertext Markup Language

JSF:

Java Server Faces

JSON:

Java Script Object Notation

JSP:

Java Server Pages

Definition

Server-side scripting languages are programming languages developed especially for creating HTML pages (or Web pages) on the server side. These languages usually provide special libraries that facilitate creating HTML pages. In times of Web 2.0 and AJAX, these scripting languages can also serve as data sources (services) for AJAX.

There are two different types of scripting languages. The first variant can be embedded in HTML. The language can be embedded, for example, in places where a particular functionality is needed. The second variant is languages which can be used to create HTML tags. They provide an interface for creating HTML tags.

On the server side, a special interpreter is necessary for each scripting language. This...

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  1. Faculty of Design – Computer Science – Media, Hochschule RheinMain, Unter den Eichen 5, 65195, Wiesbaden, Germany

    Ludger Martin

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Institute for Web Science and Technologies, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Thomas Gottron

  2. YU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Stefan Schlobach

  3. Institute for Web Science and Technologies, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Steffen Staab

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Martin, L. (2017). Server-Side Scripting Languages. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_363-1

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