Thanks to this experience, and what that group did, I was
hooked. I realized the future again belonged to the thin client, and massive opportunities
existed for developers and companies that could successfully exploit it.
AJAX Enters the Picture
AJAX, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML or Asynchronous Java and
XML (depending on who you ask), is a technique that has received a lot of attention
recently because it has been used with great success by companies such as Amazon and
Google. The key word here is asynchronous because, despite all the great technologies
available in the browser for delivering and running applications, the ultimate model of
the browser is still the synchronous request/response model. This means that when an
operation occurs in the web page, the browser sends a request to the server waiting for its
response. For example, clicking the Checkout button within an HTML page of an e-commerce
application consists of calling the web server to process the order and waiting for
its response. As such, duplicating the quick refresh and frequent updates provided by
desktop applications is hard to achieve.
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