AJAX and SAJAX

Posted by Shaun on September 14th, 2005 filed in Junk drawer

I’ve been intrigued by something named AJAX ever since I heard about it from a guy at work. Basically, it is a programming technique where you use JavaScript to make HTTP requests and modify the page displayed in a browser using the information returned. There is no need to refresh the entire page, you just use JavaScript to modify or refresh portions of the page. Gmail and Google Maps both extensively use AJAX.

You can write your own AJAX code or if you want to make things easier on yourself you can use something like SAJAX, which is a freely available (BSD license) toolkit for creating AJAX code. It is still in infancy, but it is definitely easy to create AJAX based pages. I did this myself at home. SAJAX will definitely become very handy once it becomes a little more powerful and configurable. It would also be nice to see a JSP version too.

Some hand AJAX links I found.