(October 7, 2005) - AJAX isn't a technology, or a language, and there's no
recipe to implement it; it's just a combination of various components to
achieve something you otherwise couldn't: asynchronous http requests.
However, since early 2005, when Google and Flickr popularized the concept,
its use has grown rapidly.
The name AJAX is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It uses the
JavaScript XMLHttpRequest function to create a tunnel from the client's
browser to the server and transmit information back and forth without having
to refresh the page. The data travels in XML ... (more)
Will web applications ever replace regular desktop applications? Will desktop
applications adopt web paradigms? Are web applications "Web 2.0"?
The whole 2.0 thing is getting much abuse now; its hype/meaning ratio is
inflating by the minute. Web 2.0 is really exposing functionality through
APIs and allowing people to collaborate, much more than it is about Rich
Internet Applications.
The... (more)
Nitobi (http://www.nitobi.com.) has announced it will support the ColdFusion
8 platform in its suite of enterprise AJAX components.
The ColdFusion edition of Nitobi Grid and Combobox offers support
to ColdFusion 8 Beta, released today by Adobe, as well as older versions of
Coldfusion. The implementation enables a simple backwards-compatible
CFINCLUDE style XML API for reading and writing ... (more)
This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters
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