From Desktop Applications Towards Ajax Web Applications

Ajax is a set of different technologies that work together to create new and powerful Web applications. Ajax is demonstrating its usefulness in real world applications. The most important Internet companies as: Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Microsoft, are developing rich Web applications based on Ajax. Many developers do not know how to use these technologies to build Ajax Applications. In this paper, we present an overview about Ajax. Here, we discuss the term Ajax and the technologies used. Also, we show how Ajax is working inside, and how the technologies work together to achieve a rich behavior.