IBM Google and other giants join forces to support the open Ajax program

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Author: Tianhong

Dow Jones News: IBM, Google, Yahoo, Oracle and other IT giants teamed up to support the open Ajax program. Many High-tech companies, including IBM, Google, Yahoo, Oracle and BEA, have announced a common support for an open source software program designed to promote a new web development technology called Ajax.

IBM said at a press conference in Wednesday that the new "Open Ajax" program was designed to promote the potential of common Ajax compatibility and easy integration into new and existing software programs. AJAX, an acronym for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML," is a quick way to create an Internet application that responds faster than a traditional web site. This technique allows a Web site to update portions of a page without having to refresh the entire page. Ajax network applications can also validate data entered into a table without waiting for the server to authenticate.

However, this technology requires a large amount of software engineering resources and lacks extensive support for development tools and implementation tools. The Open Ajax program is about solving these problems. IBM plans to donate some of its software to the Open-source Software development Environment Eclipse Foundation and the free Firefox browser developer Mozilla. The so-called Rich Internet program developed by Ajax Technology competes with Adobe System Company's Flash technology. And Microsoft is developing its own AJAX development tool called "Atlas".