AJAX the Key to Interactive Application

In today’s swift cyber world, users have become more demanding & unwilling to use the traditional web application that requires time for something to happen after entering the data & clicking the button. Users are no longer interested in slow working or any interruption in their workflow. Ever developing software industry has given rise to web applications that tend to respond immediately to any action users take.

Ajax has proved to be a wonderful tool for web application developers to meet this new demand for more interactive and dynamic web applications. Ajax is not a technology but a group of technologies that uses;

XHTML or HTML and CSS, for marking up and designing information
JavaScript and JScript, to dynamically display and interact with the information accessed
The XMLHttpRequest object that is used to exchange data asynchronously with the web server.
Sometimes, XML is used as the format for transferring data between the server and client.

Certainly, you must provide something on the server to deal with the incoming XMLHttpRequest, comprehend the XML data, and return it to the client. As a good web application, your application must be capable of controlling conversion, validation, data persistence, and navigation. Just casting Ajax technology into a web application will not assure the good results. It should be done in a right manner and following recommended design patterns. For a moment, suppose you don’t follow recommended practices, you can build a web application that initially looks fine but that will hit you with problems of maintenance and scalability later.

You have many options of tools and technologies to use to properly develop Ajax-enabled applications. The key requirement to run an Ajax application is a browser that supports JavaScript technology. You can effectively use Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java2EE), some other development platform, or one of the many scripting languages to develop your Ajax-enabled web application.

Anne Catherine, the author of this article is an expert on internet business and online shopping related issues. To have a peek into her business and technology oriented articles visit the website http://www.infysolutions.com

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