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Better Web Apps With Ajax

Posted by Zonk on from the sounds-like-a-clean-idea dept.

An anonymous reader wrote to mention an article on IBM's site detailing the fundamentals of Java-based Ajax. From the article: "This article gives you a good understanding of the fundamental principles of Ajax, and a nuts-and-bolts knowledge of the client and server side components that participate in an Ajax interaction. These are the building blocks of a Java-based Ajax Web application. In addition, you will be shown some of the high-level design issues that come with the Ajax approach."

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  1. Re:With AJAX, you know you've got by temojen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a screenshot:












  2. Atlas by ThinkFr33ly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Atlas is Microsoft's entry into the suddenly-popular-even-though-it-has-been-around-fo r-7-or-more-years AJAX trend.

    Atlas is a set of extensions to ASP.NET 2.0 that allows for web developers to use AJAX with little or no plumbing work on their part.

    It integrates with ASP.NET extremely well and maintains the "event driven" style that ASP.NET is known for.

    There is also a Channel 9 video about what Microsoft is doing on the AJAX front elsewhere.

  3. The problem with AJAX is the X by MarkEst1973 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    JSON is a much better mechanism for handling data transmission in AJAX applications.

    Why? Less verbose (easier on bandwidth) and no parsing (ever tried parsing XML using XmlHttpRequest? It sucks). JSON is object syntax. It is a real, live object serialized to string.

    It just so happens that JSON is also legal Python object notation.

    Hmmm... GMail, Google Maps, Google Suggest... none of these use XML. Google is also renowned for using Python. JSON syntax is the same in client-side javascript and server-side python... hmmm... makes me think twice, anyway, instead of drinking the web services kool-aid Sun and Microsoft are serving.