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A lot of rumors have been floating around about what Adobe’s CS4 suite will and will not contain such as which new additions will be added to improve productivity and several more specific package related tales. All of this has been recollected by Adobe’s decision to make an official statement regarding the next release of Dreamweaver CS4.

Adobe released a TechNote titled “Deprecated features in Dreamweaver“. Adobe stated: ” we’ve recently made some difficult decisions as a tradeoff between continuing to support infrequently used features vs. developing new features to both streamline key web design and development workflows and support newer technologies and development models.”

In this note Adobe announced that they will no longer be including features for the following services:

• ASP.NET server behaviors and recordsets
  
• JSP server behaviors and recordsets
  
• Layout Mode
  
• Flash Elements
  
• Flash Buttons and Flash Text
  
• Site Map
  
• JavaBeans
  
• ASP.NET server behavior mechanism
  
• JSP server behavior mechanism
  
• Web Services Panel
  
• Timelines
  

It appears to me that Adobe has made a very wise choice declaring this long before their next release so that people will be aware prior to launch. There were a lot of complaints voiced by the ASP community in the past by a lack of full support for their ASP 1.0 and total lack of support for ASP 2.0. Adobe decided that rather than featuring a limited amount of support, time could be spent elsewhere on refining some of the newer technologies.

A wise choice in my eyes as I’ve never really been a fan of ASP anyways.
Should I be a fan of it?
List some reasons in the comments, tell me why people use ASP with all the other options available. I would love to hear them.

Original article technote: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402489&sliceId=1