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AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. According to the online encyclopedia site, wikipedia.org, Ajax:is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This is intended to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, functionality, and usability.
It has clear advantages over exclusively using Active Server Pages, especially concerning load times. For example, if I was to create a web page about the 100 United States Senators and I wanted to change the page's content dynamically, say, each time a different state is selected from a menu, with plain ASP (Active Server Pages), the page would reload each time a different state was selected from a menu.
When using ASP in conjunction with AJAX, the server can deliver dynamic content behind the scenes without the page reloading.
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