IT giants such as IBM, Google, Yahoo, and Oracle joined hands to support the OpenAjax program. Many high-tech companies, such as IBM, Google, Yahoo, Oracle, and BEA Systems, have announced joint support for an open-source software program to promote an emerging Web development technology called Ajax.
IBM said at a press conference on Wednesday that the new "OpenAjax" program aims to promote the potential for Ajax universal compatibility and easily integrate it into new and existing software programs. AJAX is the abbreviation of "Asynchronous t and XML". It is a method for quickly creating Internet applications, and its response speed is much faster than that of traditional websites. This technology allows a website to update part of a webpage without refreshing the entire webpage. Ajax Web applications can also verify the data entered into the table without waiting for server verification.
However, this technology requires a large amount of software engineering resources and lacks extensive support for development tools and implementation tools. The "OpenAjax" plan is to solve these problems. IBM plans to donate some of its software to Mozilla, a developer of the open-source software development environment EclipseFoundation and the free Firefox browser. The so-called rich Internet programs developed by Ajax technology compete with Flash technology developed by Adobe Systems. Microsoft is developing its own Ajax development tool called "Atlas.
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