Rajendra Alapaty's Weblog : AJAX - Technology/Architecture for Next Generation Web Applications

AJAX - Technology/Architecture for Next Generation Web Applications: "Today, I read an really good article titled Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applicationson AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript And XMLHttpObject, the technologies behind the feature rich web based applications from Google like GMail, GoogleMaps, and GoogleSuggest.
Definition of the AJAX from the above article is, Ajax isnt a technology. Its 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. "