Introduction:
In this article,we are going to discuss about what is ajax web web application model,and how itsdifferentiated with classic web application model.
Main:
Defining Ajax
Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own
right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates:
• standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
• dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
• data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
• asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
• and JavaScript binding everything together.
How Ajax is Different
An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the
Web by introducing an intermediary — an Ajax engine — between the user and the
server. It seems like adding a layer to the application would make it less responsive,
but the opposite is true.
Instead of loading a webpage, at the start of the session, the browser loads an Ajax
engine — written in JavaScript and usually tucked away in a hidden frame. This
engine is responsible for both rendering the interface the user sees and
communicating with the server on the user’s behalf. The Ajax engine allows the
user’s interaction with the application to happen asynchronously — independent of
communication with the server. So the user is never staring at a blank browser
window and an hourglass icon, waiting around for the server to do something.
Every user action that normally would generate an HTTP request takes the form of a
JavaScript call to the Ajax engine instead. Any response to a user action that doesn’t
require a trip back to the server — such as simple data validation, editing data in
memory, and even some navigation — the engine handles on its own. If the engine
needs something from the server in order to respond — if it’s submitting data for
processing, loading additional interface code, or retrieving new data — the engine
makes those requests asynchronously, usually using XML, without stalling a user’s
interaction with the application.
Conclusion:
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