Friday, July 27, 2007

What is AJAX

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is a web development used for creating interactive web applications. Is is an effort to make the web page more responsive by exchanging small amount of data with the server so that the entire web page does not have be reloaded each time the user requests a change.

Ajax is not a technology itself but refers to the use of a group of technologies.

It has only been around as a term since 2005.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)