Meet Arun

First and foremost, its pronounciation. The word is most commonly pronounced as simply ‘Ajax’ or with a little tounge twister as ‘Ay-ax’. I prefer the second one but there’s no proper method to pronounce it, its all upto the person who says the word. Ajax is said to be a Greek Trojan war hero (thats what i heard), and there’s a Dutch soccer team named after him too! Well lets not get into a lot of soccer now.

AJAX stands for Asynchronus Javascript and XML, the concept that was there in the industry from a long time but not given proper recognition and a good name till 2005.

The concept involves sending and recieving only small of data to and from the server, instead of posting the whole page and sending the FULL web page and its data. So, there’s no actual posting being done, and so there’s no history maintained by the browser (will come to this later). In my next post we will try out a sample application in Ajax.