Best ajax frameworks & Tools
Ajax is one of the most important web 2.0 element. But other than that, it is the basic tool used for rich backend interfaces. You may have seen the simple but powerful gMail webmail , microsoft live or some other popular website which are all based on ajax technologies. Ajax is not a language, but its just a combination of different languages/technologies. Ajax is a combination of XML and javascript from which javascript always acts as an action object while xml is always response or sometimes also request text. Ajax is always used to get heavy datasets without reload page in a browser. In simple words, you’ll stay in browser as you may have seen in gmail, no matter if you open , compose or delete an email you always remains on same page. That’s the true ajax.
Anyways here is a short list of best methods and frameworks which can be used to make your web application more better with ajax.
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jQuery ajax methods
jQuery is a powerful and light weight javascript client library. It also have a utility which is called jQuery.ajax. It have further more sub methods to be used for parsing ajax requests. jQuery.ajax is one of the easiest way to implement ajax in your web application. But for the backend you have to code yourself no matter if you use php, jsp or .net as a backend script file.
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ajax-Ac
If you are a php developer then ajaxAC is the best open source ajax framework. It is used to implement rich ajax applications in your php scripts.
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SAjax Ajax library and toolkit
sAjax is another PHP based ajax framework. It is powerful and very easy to use and program. The best thing about AJax is that you never have to worry about knowing javascript a lot because you do most of the things inside SAjax php framework’s functions.
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Aax.NET
If you are a .NET developer and looking to implement ajax in your web application then Ajax.NET have the words for you.
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Mootools Ajax
Mootools is another powerful javascript client library which is just like jQuery, YUI but have its own features and way of scripting. Its ajax features are awesome. You can easily create powerful ajax based web application by mootool’s ajax methods and mootool’s ajax. The beautify of mootools is its effects which can never been seen in any other javascript client libraries because it is so much flexible that we can create any type of effect with it.
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YUI - Yahoo User Interface Library
Like all other javascript libraries, Yahoo have its own library to implement ajax and to do other things. Yahoo is just not limited to ajax, but it can help you to create and implement a lot of web elements. For example Yahoo UI Grids are helpful for displaying data in grids, yahoo GUI Request and response objects for ajax, Soap objects, CSS objects for making CSS based interfaces easily, drag and drop support and many other things.
Ajax can be implemented in both easy and difficult ways. Its up to you which library you choose. Mostly I do use jQuery’s ajax core. Because I use jQuery for all of my front end animations, effects and data mining tasks. So it is probably the best idea to stick with same library to do the ajax stuff. But of course the other libraries and frameworks have their own advantages.
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jQuery is lovely too.. Yet its the easiest one.
http://www.thinkflick.com/jquery/implementing-ajax-with-jquery/
except closing queries...
prototype.js is the best framework.