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AJAX

What is AJAX

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a term coined by James Garrett in his Feb 18th, 2005 column "Ajax: a New Approach to Web Applications"∞. Simply it means having an interactive web form without having to refresh the webpage. The requests are handled by XMLHttpRequests and posted back to the already open form.

Two of the most visible uses of this are Google's gmail∞, and Google Maps∞.

One of the easier ways to get started with AJAX is RubyOnRails. You can also use the prototype∞ library directly for PHP, or the even more complete (and based on prototype) script.aculo∞.

Ajax Projects/apis

Sourceforge list of Ajax projects∞
http://prototype.conio.net/∞ - prototype Ajax libraries. These are the ones included with RubyOnRails
http://rails.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/JavaScriptHelper.html∞ - Rails Ajax Functions
http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/∞ - sajax (ajax library)
http://script.aculo.us/∞ - Ajax javascript libraries addon to prototype
http://www.getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/∞ - DWR
http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/csharpsample/default.aspx∞ - Ajax.net
http://thyapi.thyamad.com/∞ ThyAPI - Impressive API
http://ajaxtags.sourceforge.net/∞ Ajax Tags
http://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-ajaxslt/∞ AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript, intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications. Because XSL-T uses XPath, it is also an implementation of XPath that can be used independently of XSL-T.
http://openrico.org/rico/home.page∞ - Rico open source Ajax API by Sabre.
http://cpaint.sourceforge.net/∞ CPAINT (Cross-Platform Asynchronous INterface Toolkit) is a true AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript+XML) and JSRS (JavaScript Remote Scripting) implementation.

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I40Wiki : AJAX

AJAX

What is AJAX

Ajax Projects/apis

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Sample Ajax Apps