AJAX was the name of a great Greek warrior (actually, two Greek warriors) whose adventures were chronicled in Homer’s epic, The Iliad. The term was later re-coined as the name of a household cleanser. It was then re-re-coined as a label for a group of web technologies.
In this last, most modern sense, AJAX is an acronym standing for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. The technologies involved in an AJAX solution include:
JavaScript, to capture interactions with the user or other browser-related events
The
XMLHttpRequestobject, which allows requests to be made to the server without interrupting other browser tasksXML files on the server, or possibly other similar data formats
More JavaScript, to interpret the data from the server and present it on the page
AJAX technology has been hailed as the savior of the web landscape, transforming static web...