rhish.franks

Hey for my project i need to learn ajax and i am getting its coding part but am stuck with
other things like:
1. Which IDE to use for windows
2. Which environment is need to run AJAX code on localhost
3. How to run the code
4. Where to get all these stuff

Thanks in advance!

Mocker

AJAX is a buzzword, meaning you are using javascript and sending http requests with it. If you are familiar with Javascript, then you should realize your questions basically don't make any sense. So here's the quick breakdown.

Javascript is a programming language. It is compiled from source by the web browser and ran on the fly. This means several things..
- Your web browser is all you need to run javascript code
- Your javascript source code is completely open and anyone can see it
- The source code can be written in any language, and is usually combined with a webpage, or saved as an external .js file (just a text file), and then included in that web page

To make a javascript page, just make a simple html webpage on your computer, put your javascript in it, and open it in your browser. I'd suggest using firefox as I find its error debugging for javascript much better. Go to Tools->Error Console, then open your page and test your javascript functions. Any errors will show up there with a self-explaining message.

To start using AJAX, you'll either need a webserver and a server side language (most likely), or nothing at all if you are going to have your javascript request content from existing sites. You could for example, have a button that calls a javascript function, which then requests a webpage with the current temperature, parses out the temperature data, and displays it on your page. I highly recommend using an existing framework like prototype when using AJAX as it makes it easy and stable to do something like that.

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rhish.franks

Hey thanks for your help. Now i am starting to use google web toolkit with eclipse. But one thing for sure i would like to state is that ajax is the thing about which there is least things available on net and is a kind of unkown to most of the programmers.