Others include: Flash combined with Macromedia's Flex server software; Sun Microsystems' J2SE; a platform under open-source development by Laszlo Systems; and the collection of established web standards recently dubbed 'Ajax'.
By adding together JavaScript and XML along with other technologies, IT developers maintain that AJAX-based applications can help Web sites and Web-based tools such as NetSuite to process user requests faster and more effectively.
More web developers are using a programming technique known as Ajax, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML. The end result of using Ajax is interactive web pages and sites that can automatically refresh information from a server.
Ajax, or asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a development method for writing interactive web applications. Google applies this knowledge to the development of all its products, Mayer said, adding that "the key motivator for us developing Gmail in...
According to Clearswift's ThreatLab manager, Pete Simpson, Ajax and XML code used to develop web applications mean those applications can potentially be subverted. You can inject JavaScript code into a web page using cross-site scripting, for example.
Google admitted that the system is comparable to long-established projects such as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), which is often used in Ajax web programming. Google uses thousands of data formats for networked messages, and XML is simply too...