AJAX – What’s it used for?
•To create rich interactive web applications
•Can look-and-feel like native OS applications
•Competitive advantage due to enhanced customer experience
•What’s good about it?
–Before AJAX:
•Submit/wait/redisplay paradigm
•Whole page Refreshes - big downloads
–With AJAX:
•Data persistence - asynchronous communication with server
•No request/response cycle needed
•No need to refresh the entire page - smaller downloads