If you’ve used Google Maps, Gmail or Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access, you’re familiar with the power of AJAX, which gives Web applications the responsiveness users associate with desktop applications.

Companies deploy Web-based enterprise applications because they’re easy to support and deliver to a broad range of devices. In the 1990s, browsers became the platform for critical applications such as ...

Legacy web applications are synchronous in nature. The user interacts with the web interface presented in the browser, the browser makes requests back to the server based on that user interaction, and ...

If you’ve used Google Maps, Gmail or Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access, you’re familiar with the power of AJAX, which gives Web applications the responsiveness that users associate with desktop ...