I think Joel Spolsky summed up AJAX well<br><br><a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FB4.5.html">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FB4.5.html</a><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<p>In the last year or so a lot of web developers have been working
hard on improving their applications using techniques now known as <em>Ajax</em>.
These applications use JavaScript code so that when you click on
something, you get immediate feedback, rather than waiting for the web
server to send you a new page at its own leisurely pace. When they do
need more information from the server, they often download the small
fragment they need, rather than waiting for the server to build a whole
new page. The net result is faster, crisper feedback that <em>makes you feel in control</em>
and creates "subjective well-being," a.k.a. happiness, a feeling that
is biochemically NO DIFFERENT THAN EATING LARGE QUANTITIES OF CHOCOLATE.</p>
<p>Just a minute... I have to pause for some fact checking ...</p>
<p>... ok, I'm back. To summarize, Ajax = Chocolate = Happiness, and so
we knew, when we started planning FogBugz 5.0, that Ajax features would
be an important part of this release.</p></blockquote><div><br> </div><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Khalid B</b> <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Google released their Google Web Toolkit.<br><br>It allows AJAX development in Java (yes, you read that right!)
<br><br><a href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/">http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/</a><br><br>Slashdot discussion<br><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/17/127214">http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/17/127214
</a><br><br>Digg<br><a href="http://digg.com/programming/New_Google_tool_compiles_Java_to_AJAX">http://digg.com/programming/New_Google_tool_compiles_Java_to_AJAX</a><br></blockquote></div><br>