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Time and time again, developers are at awe on any Ajax based website. It�s complexity that matches its efficiency has made the developers and web owners to scramble for knowledge to develop this technique to this hottest web coding today. Although other codes have been thriving, none of them could be compared to JavaScript and the mark-up language XML � the main components of Ajax. Fortunately, there are individuals who are already proficient in JavaScript long before it

Checking your application is always a standard procedure in any language. In the case of Ajax, the importance is even greater considering the complexity of the development technique. When debugging the application, Ajax developers knows that they have to go for the Server-side functions as well as the client side. Fortunately, client side debugging tools are common. Firefox even has a small add-on that has the ability to debug Client-Side functions of Ajax. Just one run with the

Ultimately, there are two types of Ajax based frameworks today: Client Side and Server Side. Each type of framework has their advantage and disadvantage which will be appealing to different types of developers. In this article we take a look at these two general classifications of Ajax based frameworks. Some will see this as a debate since it has the same goal but each of this type of frameworks only cater to specific type of developers. The only question for developers is

Fetching data from the server using Ajax with JavaServer components is a little bit challenging especially when you wanted an autosuggestion added to the functionality. Configuring an autosuggest is a little bit challenging since the information will have an immediate effect to the whole application. This is a little bit discomforting for the user since they will never have the option of confirming the information they have just entered. To answer this problem, Ajax developers use the

Java developers are now more comfortable in developing Ajax based application. Even without writing a single line of JavaScript, an Ajax based application is possible with Java developer. Although it requires advanced knowledge of Java technology to enable Java in Ajax, the fact that Java is possible opens doors to the developers who has concentrated in Java. They do not need to learn a brand new language just to go with the most popular development technique. What made this

You have one page to render everything: news, quote of the day, embedded small online games and even your blog. You can create a page wherein your visitors can scroll down for information but too much scrolling is really annoying. You have to build a website where everything has to be crammed but will never sacrifice the overall lay-out of the website. During the days of HTML, developers are just resigned to the simple fact that everything could never be placed in a single webpage.

Java based frameworks for Ajax development are everywhere. Each of them provides a slightly different technique catering to the skills of some Java developers. But if you have tried developing an application or creating a website using Google Web Toolkit or GWT, the gist of the idea is basically there. After all, GWT is practically the leader in Java frameworks that aims in developing Ajax based websites. GWT literally translates your Java coding into JavaScript so that it could be

Talking about scaffolding makes us think about building construction support. The term scaffolding was also admitted by Rails as a way of helping developers build an application faster. In Rails, developers enjoy the privilege of having a temporary code to build a demo of the application. This code is not built for long time use, but just enough to support the system for a demo. Some says it is a waste of time but when you take a look at it, it is actually a good thing.

Java based frameworks for Ajax development are everywhere. Each of them provides a slightly different technique catering to the skills of some Java developers. But if you have tried developing an application or creating a website using Google Web Toolkit or GWT, the gist of the idea is basically there. After all, GWT is practically the leader in Java frameworks that aims in developing Ajax based websites. GWT literally translates your Java coding into JavaScript

Here is another server-side framework for Ajax that has been developed for sometime now. This framework was last updated November 2005 but still holds great relevance in building Ajax based websites until today. Why? Because among the many server-side frameworks out there, few of them actually caters to PHP and XOAD is a rare few that has been proven to work for many years now. XOAD used to be called NAJAX. With the changed name, the framework came out with better functionality.

There are frameworks you can use today that comes in as a lightweight yet highly efficient Ajax based framework. However, once you have started using this particular framework things might not be as powerful as they are. They are able to solve your cross browser problems but eventually some functions are a little bit harder to implement. In the end, you end up developing an Ajax based widget instead of a full blown application. Its quiet frustrating since most of the

A regular website could easily cache the page�s information. The whole webpage is saved in the temporary folder so that it could be accessed faster the next time user visits the particular page. Unfortunately, this concept is only applied to HTML and other websites where the whole webpage is refreshed whenever something new is added. Ajax on the other hand, refreshes only part of the page so the natural caching behavior is not applied as it does not detect any general changes

An easy way of building a personalized homepage as a Standalone service or Integrate with any third party CMS, Blog, Bulletin Board applications, so members of those systems do not need to register again to start Personalizing their homepage. With prebuilt widgets, users are able to organize the latest information from different leading sources, like: CNN, CBS, TechCrunch, ESPN, GigaOM, NY Times etc. Searching the content is one of the frequently used web feature, MyWeb has a number of perfect widgets that allow them to search the web with Google, Yahoo, MS Live, WikiPedia, YouTube, Technorati, IceRocket etc. BENEFITS: Unified homepage for your visitors and members. This is done without impacting the regular homepage; Switching to PHPCow MYWeb brings with it the ability to actually offer everything from weather forecasts, to photos to YouTube Videos for your visitors with no programming experience needed; Drag and Drop functionality; Pre-configured, Ready-made Pages and Widgets.

ConvincingMail AutoComplete is an ASP.NET AJAX extender that can be attached to any TextBox control, and will associate that control with a popup list to display items that returend by the webservice for the prefix typed into the textbox. The list with suggested items supplied by a web service is positioned under the textbox.

dhtmlxVault is a DHTML/AJAX file uploader that helps to implement a modern and feature-rich file uploading part of a web application. Built-in progress bar informs users during long-time operation about the ongoing process. Different file types are displayed with corresponding icons (more file types can be added if required). Built with AJAX technology, dhtmlxVault allows files to be uploaded seamlessly without reloading the entire webpage. Being part of a web page, this file uploader does not require additional authorization. It will work smoothly via SSL / HTTPS connection. dhtmlxVault is distributed under both GPL and commercial license (PRO edition).

Any business transactions who want nothing more than security, speed and accuracy of application use SOAP for information transportation between applications. Using HTTP, developers are able to use the internet and more specifically, the browsers to ensure that the application and information transfer will never require more than a stable internet connection. Based on current technologies today, SOAP web services is stronger than ever because of the advantages it ensures. The development of Ajax development techniques made it even better for SOAP web based services. SOAP uses XML for data transfer which is a very smart choice. As a universal data mark-up XML could practically be integrated to any browser with the full security you can expect from any mark-up protocol.

The back button and behavior is one of the biggest challenges to any developer. In simple HTML pages, the back button preserves the last state of the website and even the things you have written there. Unfortunately, this reality is not possible in Ajax. Developers have to toil hard and rough so that the last state of the website is preserved. In a regular setting, the whole webpage reloads whenever the back button is pressed. Some may say back button is not necessary anymore

Developing an Ajax based application with minimal JavaScript coding is possible with the use of VS 2005, ASP.NET and a simple but powerful library called Anthem.NET. This open source library might not be popular but it has been given a pretty good ranking as it provides any developer the ability to build an Ajax based website without using too much Ajax. As you may have already noticed, it uses a lot of frameworks and software development tools to compensate with the minimal use of JavaScript. To use Anthem.NET you need to fire it up first in ASP.NET. Basically, you will just have to use the libraries DLL as a reference point to make it work. It is really simple at first glance but apparently Antem.NET�s DLL is not precompiled first. Make sure that you compile the project carefully as the DLL could get extracted in different places.

It is already an established problem in Ajax that developers would still need to develop almost two types of applications if they wanted to build an online application good for Mozilla and Internet Explorer. Because of this struggle, developers would have to build almost two different applications that will require a lot more than the usual time for application development. The end result however, is well worth it. A highly efficient Ajax based application does not only provide eye catching features but could easily provide a highly effective application with processing speed that almost rivals any simple web-based application. Transmitting only the data needed in the application for Ajax has lessened the bandwidth requirements for an Ajax based application.

PageFlakes.com has some of the most amazing feature that you cannot find in most websites: a widget container. Any HTML code that you have could be easily loaded through the container provided by Pageflakes.com. Although there are already tons of widgets in their website, you can easily create one of your own. For example, the embed code in YouTube.com could easily be applied in the codes that you have. Codes that could be integrated in MySpace.com such as simple casual games could also be applied in the widget container. As a developer, you can also offer a widget container in your website so that users could upload an application through an embedded code from a different website.