
426 • XML & Related Technologies
Of course, this is only one of the uses of AJAX. It can be used in any situation, where we want the client
to send a request to the server for taking action, without the user having to abandon her current task. This tells
us that AJAX helps us to do something behind the scenes, without impacting the user’s work.
The name says it all: Asynchronous JavaScript And XML.
AJAX is:
• Asynchronous because it does not disturb the user’s work, and does not refresh the full screen
(unlike what happens when the user submits a form to the server, for example)
• JavaScript because it uses JavaScript for the actual work ...