Ajax Application Development: the future use and development of Ajax is sustainable.

Abstract

     No longer are you forced to wait five seconds for a web page to reload every time you click on something (Pen et al. 2008).  With the constant evolution of technology, Ajax could well be the next big web technology, achieving a de facto standard status in the web community due to the influence and drive by web giants.  It has also been proposed that Ajax is nothing more than a "web fashion" soon to be replaced by superior technology, and will become a victim of the rapidly moving web development fashions.  Ajax isn't something you can download; it's an approach, a way of thinking about the architecture of web applications using certain web technologies (Garrett 2005).  This paper aims to ascertain the direction Ajax will move in; attempting to re-validate its future by evaluating the direction of the web philosophy and where Ajax fits with its association with Web 2.0, its applicability to both business and customer needs, and the direction of further appropriate research and development