Spring: Developing Java Applications for the Enterprise

Handling web services in Ajax

Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a web development technique used on the client side to create asynchronous web applications. In a typical web application, every time a web request is fired as a response, we get a full web page loaded, but in an Ajax-based web application web pages are updated asynchronously by polling small data with the server behind the scenes. This means that, using Ajax, it is possible to update parts of a web page without reloading the entire web page. With Ajax, web applications can send data to, and retrieve data from, a server asynchronously. The asynchronous aspect of Ajax allows us to write code that can send some requests to a server and handles a server response without reloading ...