Treffer: Industry Giants Reluctantly Join Hot AJAX Development Trend.

The article reports that AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) developed by Microsoft Inc. is making progress. The company has given further boost to AJAX by announcing the development framework in the form of Windows Live. AJAX is a group of technologies that include interchange and manipulation with XML and XSLT, page presentation with XHTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), dynamic display and user interaction with DOM (Document Object Model), and asynchronous retrieval of data using XMLHttpRequest. AJAX is complementary to or compatible with other development systems. One example is Tibco Software Inc. with its General Interface 3.0, which provides an API framework and a suite of development tools for AJAX. Other AJAX libraries include Ajax.Net, Sajax and Prototype. AJAX is also being embedded into other Web development frameworks. In spite of Java, .Net, Perl, PHP, Flash and a host of other approaches to improving Web applications, it's interesting that a scripting language and a form of HTML continues to draw some of developers' best efforts.