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Happy 1st Birthday AJAX!
Posted by gmurray71 on February 17, 2006 at 07:00 PM | Comments (3)
A year ago I swore I would never use the term AJAX (that lasted about 3 days) as it brought to mind cleaning my sink. A year later I have to say AJAX has made the world a better place and looks to make an even brighter future.
Where has AJAX come in its first year?
- AJAX is almost easy enough for a 1 year old - When AJAX emerged there was a lot of FUD comparing AJAX to rocket science. At Sun have shown the any Java developer can easily use AJAX, whether it be from a simple web page attached to a Servlet as described in this tech tip or a JSF component in a tool such as Creator that does all the heavy lifting.
- Everybody loves AJAX - While many companies would not touch a 1 year old technology with a 10 foot cattle prod, AJAX is different. Like any cute baby everyone wants to embrace AJAX. Over the past year many companies have deployed AJAX enabled applications and services. Others like Sun are enabling there tools and technologies.
- AJAX is making lots of friends - Like any active 1 year old AJAX is making many friends. AJAX does not favor any platform or technology. It gets along with everyone. As I speak with developer from all walks of life (Java, .Net, RoR, and PHP) I can speak the same language though to a non-tech savvy passer by this may appear to be a 1 year old's gibberish.
- AJAX learned to stand on its own - Not bad for a 1 year old! During the first year of existence many frameworks have begun to support AJAX. New client and server frameworks have emerged and every day something new appears.
- AJAX is still growing - Like any 1 year old AJAX is growing up fast. New ideas and techniques are being developed and refined on a daily basis. Maybe AJAX will learn to talk in something other than XML or JSON during it's second year?
While much more could be said about this 1 year old I'll keep this short. We should all take a moment to reflect where AJAX have been in the last year and where it's going in the year to come. Happy Birthday AJAX!
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Talking XML or JSON? Why not try DWR!
Mats Henricson
Posted by: matsh on February 18, 2006 at 11:45 AM
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To be fair,
many companies were deploying AJaX applications much longer than a year ago; they just didn't call it that. In actuality, only the name is a year old. This demonstrates that the adoption rate of a catchy term, is a lot faster than a genuinely new technology.
Posted by: cajo on February 19, 2006 at 07:14 AM
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In human terms AJAX really is a 2nd grader as you said. I really look forward to seeing the next generation W3C standardization of AJAX where we can count on the XHR, have client storage APIs, and other goodies that are more difficult without the help of a JavaScript library today. AJAX is great because its format allows for any type of conversation. As far as what AJAX speaks I like AJAX because it can converse in any format. I like JSON and JavaScript because I have to do less on the client parsing the code. When I started using AJAX I promoted using only XML as can be seen in this blog entry. I've since had a change of heart.
Posted by: gmurray71 on February 19, 2006 at 10:21 AM
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