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OpenAJAX

Infoworld reports about the OpenAJAX Alliance where there 31 group members are reaching out for consensus on AJAX

Something about AJAX

The AJAX definition as written in Wikipedia states that AJAX is a Web
development technique for building interactive Web applications, with the intent
of making Web pages more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server. With this technique, the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded
each time the user makes a change.

The AJAX technique consists of XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets for marking and styling information, and a DOM (Document Object Model) accessed with a client-side scripting language, particularly JavaScript or JScript.

Also featured is an XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data asynchronously with the Web server. In some frameworks and situations, an IFrame object is used instead of XMLHttprequest to exchange data. XML is sometimes as used as the format for data transfer between the server and client, although formats such as preformatted HTML, plain text, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language) also will work.

Quote from Zimbra President and CTO - Scott Dietzen:

"Our take is that OpenAjax exists to best leverage the investment protection and
community innovation inherent in the open source model to accelerate AJAX
adoption," and ensure that AJAX remains multi-client, multi-browser,
multi-server, and independent of any specific language or container on the
server"

posted by bkajay @ 10:32 PM