Adobe Flex and Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Rated Best for Security, Latest Evans Data Survey Shows.SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz, city, United States Santa Cruz (săn`tə kr  z), city (1990 pop. 49,040), seat of Santa Cruz co., W Calif., on the north shore of Monterey Bay; inc. 1866. , Calif. -- Adobe[R] Flex[TM] and Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX ASP.NET AJAX, formerly code-named Atlas, is a set of extensions to ASP.NET developed by Microsoft for implementing Ajax functionality.Including both client-side and server-side components, ASP.NET AJAX allows the developer to create web applications in ASP.NET 2. (previously code-named "Atlas") were rated tops in security when rated by users of these popular languages, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Evans Data Corporation's newly released 2007 Scripting Languages - Developers Choice Report. The research is based on developers ranking scripting languages that they use across thirteen distinct attributes. Flex, a J2EE application A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. , scored slightly higher than ASP.NET, touting several built-in security mechanisms that control access to web services, HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. services and JAVA classes. "Developers know that strong security is the foundation of great user experiences, and an increasingly important selection criteria for rich Internet application See RIA and rich client. development technology," said Jeff Whatcott, vice president of marketing at Adobe. "It's wonderful to see Flex recognized as the security leader." John Andrews, President at Evan Data Corp. added, "The feature set used to rank these scripting languages were based on what developers and enterprises indicate as the most important, and these have become even more important given the pervasive market adoption into much more mission critical applications." In this recent survey of more than 400 developers, respondents ranked twelve different scripting languages, including Ruby, ASP.NET AJAX, Flex, Python, Cold Fusion, PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. , Action Script, XMAL, Javascript, Perl, VB Script, and Tcl. The thirteen vertical categories the languages were broken into were ease of use, readability, cross-platform, community, availability of tools, performance, client-side scripting, security, web services development, rapid development, memory management, quality of tools, and frameworks. About Evans Data Corporation Evans Data Corporation (www.evansdata.com) provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans' syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects. *Evans Data is hosting the much anticipated Developer Relations Conference '07 to be held March 12 and 13, 2007, in Redwood City, CA (www.evansdata.com/drc)* Copyright(C) 2007 Evans Data Corporation. All other company names, products and services mentioned in this document are the trademarks and property of their respective owners. |
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