Active Platform is a development environment provided by a Web server. The main components of Active Platform are Active Server and the Active Desktop.
Currently, IIS version 3.0 and later, Peer Web Server, and Personal Web Server all support the Active Platform environment through the installation of ASP.
Active Platform provides an integrated, comprehensive set of client and server development technologies that make it easy to integrate the connectivity of the Internet with the power of the personal computer. The foundation of Active Platform includes HTML scripting and components. Active Platform is also the only development platform that allows developers to choose to target either cross-platform or platform-specific functionality.