Learn about the emerging programming technique known as Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML).
"The star addition to Rails 1.1 is RJS, which enables JavaScript calls in Ruby code and simplifies AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML)-style programming. Tasks that previously required more extensive coding and server calls can now be handled more concisely with RJS." Source: sys-con.com
"Jesse James Garrett headlines the one-day Real-World Ajax Seminar being produced by SYS-CON Media at the San Jose Hilton on April 24. Garrett's presentation is entitled, "The Elements of User Experience," and the presentation will be a reprise of Garrett's successful presentation at the inaugural Real-World Ajax event in New York on March 13. Jesse James Garrett has been tracking the evolution of Ajax since, well, before it had a name! He is the Director of User Experience Strategy and a founding partner of Adaptive Path, the world's premier user experience consulting company. He is author of The Elements of User Experience (New Riders), and is recognized as a pioneer in the field of information architecture." Source: sys-con.com
"Alacra, Inc., a leading provider of online business information solutions, announced today the launch of a new Ajax-driven Keyword Search in the Alacra Store (www.alacrastore.com). This enhancement, combined with Alacra's easy to use interface, enables business professionals to search for and discover reports from all of the premium database providers in the Alacra Store. Users can now search simultaneously for premium content from every publisher by keyword, date range, report price, content category, and database publisher. Additionally, users have the option to query and gather data on any company found within Alacra's expansive company universe." Source: tmcnet.com
"Web users are getting spoiled. Once they experience the Ajax-powered speed and interactivity of apps on Google or Flickr, click-and-wait Web interfaces won't cut it. Spurred by growing business interest, Microsoft and backers of Eclipse, the open source programmer's workbench, last week stepped up efforts to create Ajax-friendly tools for building interactive Web applications." Source: informationweek.com
"Alex Russell, who works at JotSpot and did the DOJO Toolkit for JavaScript is talking about Comet and low latency data to and from browsers (slides). The subtitle is “after AJAX.” The goal is responsiveness. AJAX gives you half the answer. AJAX is about me. Social applications are driven by others—the multiuser web. How do we send the datagrams that users make to each other." Source: irishdev.com
"This technical article explains how Elphel used asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX) to add advanced features to the user interfaces of its Linux-based network camera family. A unique AJAX architecture leverages a full LAMP stack (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) on the client side, providing richer functionality than a Javascript/XML-enabled browser alone could provide, especially in terms of interaction with local client-side mass storage devices, the author claims." Source: linuxdevices.com
"Many of the AJAX libraries out there have tons of duplicate functionality to handle cross-browser support. Recalling Microsoft's history of IE quirks, it seems likely that the new IE7 will have its own set of problems with regards to JS implementation. With the AJAX craze only growing, how are other developers and IT departments addressing this problem? Is this even a valid concern? While this is probably not an issue with ASP developers - especially with the release of Atlas - is this an issue for sites that use non-MS technologies?" Source: slashdot.org
"Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) was the rage at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas, as keynoters and panelist offered predictions and expectations for the future of development on the Java platform. Cedric Beust, an engineer at Google, said, "I think all the pieces are there on the server side. But I think we'll get a whole new ecosystem around Ajax. It's like a bad cold. More and more people are coming to this thing and we have a whole new excitement for Web sites we never had before, with things like mashups."" Source: au.sys-con.com
"SitePoint (sitepoint.com), provider of fun, practical and easy-to-understand content for web professionals, announced the launch of "The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks." "This book was written for the new breed of JavaScript developers, to help them use this technology with intelligence, creativity, and empathy for end-users. It provides working solutions that take full advantage of all that JavaScript has to offer, while ensuring standards-compliance and accessibility," said SitePoint CEO and Co-founder Mark Harottle." Source: be.sys-con.com
"There is no registeration or anything of that sort. Go to the website, hit the “ajaxwrite’ button, a new window opens up, and while it looks like a cut rate wordprocessor, it gives you an interface that is remarkably familair - circa 1994." Source: gigaom.com
This article provides with a thorough AJAX primer and gives a real-world illustration of its usefulness. it also demonstrates the benefits of AJAX using a test case application for a chemical sales company. Source: webpronews.com
"Innoopract Informationssysteme is proposing this week at EclipseCon a new project to the Eclipse Foundation to help developers create AJAX-enabled applications using Eclipse technology and methodology. The Karlsruhe, Germany, company is proposing the Rich AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Platform, or RAP, Project, an open-source project that aims to enable developers to build rich, AJAX-enabled Web applications by using the Eclipse development model, plug-ins and a Java-only API." Source: eweek.com
"Commercial tool provider Exadel is rolling out a Web component framework for building apps based on JavaServer Faces components. What's new is that the open source IDE takes some of the development work out of creating AJAX-enabled components. The Exadel Visual Component Platform 1.0, an open-source Eclipse-based framework, is designed to "hide" the complexities of the underlying technologies, by enabling developers to add, for example, AJAX capabilities without writing JavaScript code." Source: adtmag.com
"When the W3C released a second edition of XForms this month as a recommendation for "new generation of Web forms," the question that begged to be asked was where does this fit into the Web development world where Ajax is the hot technology? The W3C touts the benefits of XForms as minimizing back-and-forth with the server and reducing the need for scripting. That might sound like a challenge to Ajax." Source: searchwebservices.techtarget.com