Technical Articles

The web development, web technologies and the thinking of the web programmers has been developing at a very rapid pace. New technologies and new trends in the development have become very common in this space. The web development is coming closer and closer to the desktop development as the time passes by. However, one major limitation that web developers are facing all over the world is – how to change a part of the webpage without actually reloading the whole webpage? If this question can be answered then almost websites and desktops are comparable and users of web sites will be very happy to use them.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, simply called AJAX technology is a buzz word in the world of web developers’ right from the day that word is first used in February 2005 by Jesse James Garret. AJAX is a very powerful technology that has made a radical improvement in the responsiveness of the web based applications. This technology has made it possible to really compare the web applications with their counter parts, desktop applications.

Asynchronous JavaScript with XmlHttpRequest, simply called AJAX has certainly become a buzzword in the world of web development. This technology has given a perfect solution for one of the most important limitation with which the web developers are suffering from a long time. With the AJAX technology, you can update information on any piece or a part of the web site without posting back the whole page.

The web developers have been facing lot of problems with some of the limitations of the existent technologies from a long time. There is no doubt that the web technologies are developing at a rapid pace and they are moving in a direction to provide the users with a very good and impressive experience with the web pages. How ever, one of the major limitations that the web developers were facing is, if the user wants to change a piece of information on a part of the web page he has to reload the whole page. There was no way to change that piece of information without distrusting the whole page. This has proved to be a very big limitation as so much of the web page user time is being wasted in these types of actions.

Google Incorporation is definitely trying to promote the usage of the open source products and the open source languages as a part of its strategy in counter attacking the monopoly of the Microsoft in the software world. The Google web tool kit which has been recently announced by the Google is a very big step towards this direction. What ever the business motive behind this step of Google is, it has made the life of Java developers, that too Java web developers very easy

The asynchronous JavaScript and XML technology, simply called AJAX technology is one main technology that is playing a major part in Web 2.0 revolution. Web developers are facing a major challenge from several years. They are unable to change the information on a part of the web page with out actually reloading the whole web page. This has really been a big problem over the years and it largely irritates the users while doing small changes in the information on a given web page. AJAX has solved this problem up to a great extent.