AJAX both a success and a failur

“AJAX both a success and a failure?”  Discuss and provide examples of success and failure.

# AJAX is a combination of organized web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications. AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. With the help of AJAX, web applications can retrieve data from the server in the background without interfering with the display of the active page. Basically, it makes the life developer life easier. It has emerged as the leading way to bring desktop-quality software features to Web applications running on browsers. Its library for Visual Data Flex, in performance with Visual Fata Flex’s web application server middleware, offers exceptional capabilities to create and implement AJAX- based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), its developers are effectively extending application of using AJAX library to the web and also developing entirely new rich internet applications with it.

            In upcoming days, AJAX could be accepted as a major technology, adopted by many organizations, as it is rich in user experience.

           

On the other hand, one of the negative aspects of the technology is that organisations need to consider the huge amount or programming languages that AJAX consists of. It has been revealed that even for a normal AJAX applications development, broad background knowledge is needed. So without a full knowledge of AJAX technology, it is presumed that the employ of this technology will result in a major risk of failure.

            Security issues have been surrounding scripting language all the time. Likewise, there is no different in AJAX security problems. For instance, the security issues relates to the Server side code being “pushed” into the Client side, which has been suggested as “dangerous”. Web services that used to be Server side are being opened up to the public allowing anyone to access the same features which used to be protected.

           

It has been stated that AJAX is still in the early development and also because of the major concerns surrounding it; many organizations are not willing for adopting the technology. Even though many big organizations and professionals have successfully implemented it, AJAX still has risks. So, under the present economic climate, organisations are not sure of implementing it.

            In present, the major concerns of the technology are security and accessibility. Though there are possibilities of solving these drawbacks during upcoming developments but for now they still stand as major downfalls. Even major companies such as Microsoft and Adobe have build up their own technologies (RIA technologies: Silverlight and Flex). These also provide similar features as of AJAX.

           

In conclusion, AJAX is not a failure but not yet the success that it could be.