Stefan Kleineikenscheidt on Integration Architecture and Engineering

Sunday March 27, 2005

AJAX Hysteria

AJAX has become the next new hype. It stands for ‘Asynchronous JavaScript and XML’ as Jesse James Garrett explains in his article ‘A New Approach to Web Applications‘. AJAX is about the browser sending requests to the server without reloading the whole page. This is IMO great stuff for various use cases - e.g. for form validation. Have a look at these examples:

• Simple Examples: Autocomplete, live search, and live action.
• XMLHttpRequest Business Card Creator

However, I see AJAX as a complement to web applications rather than a replacment for the server roundtrips to load the next page (as James and others suggest). We’ll see — it’s going to be fun anyway.

Update: For completeness i should add a link to this blog post (by Matt Raible).

Posted on Mar 27, 2005 at 12:24 (MET) | Permalink | Add comment