Borland® Delphi™ 6 Developer's Guide

Debugging Active Server Objects

As you saw in the previous section, Active Server Objects are like ISAPI DLLs: After they are loaded, you need to bring down the entire Web server to unload them because Active Server Objects are loaded by the ASP.DLL, which is an ISAPI DLL in itself. However, the advantage of ASP is the fact that for the Active Server Pages themselves, you can update the scripts as much as you want, without having to change, unload, or reload the Active Server Objects themselves. As long as the functionality inside the Active Server Object doesn't change, you need only to update the scripts. Of course, making sure that the Active Server Objects work correctly is another task, which at times requires the capability to debug Active ...