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Vendors spread the AJAX gospel

06.02.2006
Users who helped spur the growth of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) programming techniques through grass-roots efforts welcomed last week's news that several top vendors have joined forces to promote it to the open-source community.

As part of the Open AJAX initiative, IBM, BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp., Novell Inc., Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc. and other vendors will contribute code for open-source AJAX tools and promote their use for building so-called rich Internet applications.

Many developers follow the AJAX programming method, which uses JavaScript within the client, to build applications that don't need to refresh a Web page every time a user enters or receives new data.

Helping developers

T.N. Subramaniam, director of technology at RouteOne LLC in Farmington Hills, Mich., said standard, reusable open-source AJAX tools and support for the programming technique from major vendors would benefit his company's software development efforts.

RouteOne, a joint venture of the finance arms of Daimler-Chrysler AG, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp., manages Web-based processing of credit applications.