Learning AJAX

Published on Friday, 11 August 2006.

Why did you decide to learn AJAX? For the hype, I guess. It just popped out everywhere, and I got this old application (in JSP) with some serious design problems (which when you make an app in just a weekend as part of school homework, but that will be used to solve a real problem, it's pretty obvious that there will be not problems but nightmares...) needing solving ASAP (red flag warning).

I remember some years ago watching a XMLHttpRequest demo: the object graph dictionary. And I said: "Nice, looks cool". Then, at some point in the space-time dimension (I need to do something about my memory problems...sigh) google maps came out. My impression: Wow! But that was it. Still didn't knew much about why using AJAX was a good thing (tm) and I did not see a need to use that kind of stuff in the applications I was working on.

So back to the old application, and the hype!, as usual I started a search on guess what? Google of course. (I'm conviced that in the near future we are only going to need water and google to live >.>). Here are some interesting results and why are they interesting (in an almost accurate browsing order):

I'm using prototype, and html snippets as the response. Let's see what happens. I'll update this to reflect any change or recommendation. Experience, my favorite teacher. I sense that redesigning the User Interface will be the most challenging problem, so integrating AJAX should be easy?

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