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Ajax Frameworks

The best technology to build dynamic web pages is Ajax. JavaScript code embedded into the HTML page is used to send requests to the server. At the server side, some processing is required to handle them, find the info or store the data. To do that, we need for a specialized framework. The framework has always a JavaScript part, and sometimes a server side part in another scripting language. A lot of them exist in various programming languages, in all environments around, but we retain here only the most widely used. Summary Why a framework? JavaScript libraries PHP frameworks Java frameworks .NET frameworks ColdFusion frameworks Ajax and XUL Resources Why a framework? Actually, this framework is the Ajax engine described by J. J. Garrett and intended to suppress waiting for the user when accessing the server. The framework provides classical, cross-browser functions to use the XMLHttpRequest object. But a framework may goes beyond that, and allow to build "r