AJAX Application Solutions
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript
and XML. Although AJAX has been available for the last 8 years, its utility was not realized until recently - developers are only recently realizing the ability of AJAX and put it to proper use in web applications. However, some developers point out that AJAX is just a fancy name for tips and techniques that previously existed in javascript.
AJAX offers a versatile platform for developing rich web applications that are highly interactive and behave just like desktop applications adding up to the usability and availability of web applications that serve enterprise business services.
The term AJAX was invented by Jesse James Garrett that described a collection of technologies that allows a rich user experience to web users.
AJAX combines the following technologies
- XML and XSLT for data exchange
- HTML or XHTML as mark up language
- CSS for creating custom styles
- Document Object Model (DOM)
- Client-end scripting language like JavaScript
- XMLHttpRequest object for asynchronous data exchange with the web server
From programming perspective AJAX enables a new way of combining client side programming in JavaScript with server side processing that deliver XML chunks to web pages. This allows web pages to be updated with new data without any need to reload the entire data.
