AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Although AJAX has been available for the last 8 years, its utility was not realized until recently – Web Spiders being one of the forerunners in realizing the ability of AJAX and put it to proper use in web applications.

AJAX offers a versatile platform for developing rich web applications that are highly interactive and behave just like desktop applications adding up to the usability and availability of web applications that serve enterprise business services. At Web Spiders, applications using AJAX harness this capability and get the most out of it.

The term AJAX was invented by Jesse James Garrett that described a collection of technologies that allows a rich user experience to web users.From programming perspective AJAX enables a new way of combining client side programming in JavaScript with server side processing that deliver XML chunks to web pages. This allows web pages to be updated with new data without any need to reload the entire data.