In this section you will learn how you can install Ajax in eclipse 3.2 or in ASP.net  .

For Eclipse  jMaki is  Plugin to install this plugin for the Eclipse 3.2 or Eclipse 3.3 we have follow following steps

1. Start Eclipse 3.3.X or Eclipse 3.2.X (The WTP (Web Tools Platform) plugins must be installed.)
2. Start the installation procedure : Go to  Help>Software Updates>Find and Install  in menu item.
3. Select "Search for new features to install" option and click Next.
4. Click "New Remote Site".
5. Enter  a name (ie jMaki Eclipse Plugin ), enter the URL https://ajax.dev.java.net/eclipse
6. Select this new site in the Sites to include in search list and click Next.
7. Select jMaki for Eclipse in the "Select the features to install" list and click Finish.
8. Accept the terms of the license agreements and click Next.
9. Verify that the install location is your Eclipse installation directory, otherwise select the correct one, click Finish.
10. A warning will appear telling the feature is not signed. Ignore and click Install to continue.
11. Accept to restart the workbench to load jMaki into the workbench.

After Eclipse is restarted  the plugin is correctly installed if you see the jMaki widgets in the Eclipse Snippets view.

If this does not work.Then you can do menauly .Download the plugin the jars  file  from  https://ajax.dev.java.net/eclipse/plugins/org.jvnet.ajax.eclipse.jmaki_1.8.0.jar

Operating Systems
      Windows Server 2003
      Windows XP Home Edition
      Windows XP Professional
      Windows Vista
   
      Any Windows operating system version (including Windows 2000) that supports the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0. Note that support will be limited to the terms of support for that platform.

Required Software

 .NET Framework 2.0 or version 3.0.
   I E 5.01 +

Optional Software

      Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer Express Edition

Installing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX

Steps to install ASP.NET AJAX.

Q : What is Ajax Advantage?

AJAX web applications are browser and platform independent.The web  applications in AJAX supported by all major browsers.But it support only  IE 5.0+, Safari 1.2+, Mozilla 1.0+ / Firefox, Opera 8+, and Netscape 7+.

AJAX is used to make a better Internet Applications(web applications).

Ajax web base applications are easier to install and support, and easier to develop.

With AJAX, Internet applications(Web applications) can be made richer and more user-friendly.

AJAX Uses HTTP Requests . In traditional JavaScript if we want to get informations from a server (from database or a file ), or user have send information to a server. Then we will have to make an HTML form .Which will send data to server through  GET or POST method. The user will have to click on "Submit" button to send/get the information.This mean we have send whole data of form and we have wait for the server to respond results.Then the server sends a new page as a results. This mean there is refresh of page.Because the server returns a new page each time the user submits input. So the traditional web applications was slower and tend to be less user-friendly. With object of XMLHttpRequest we can communicates directly with the server and with HTTP request, a web page can make a request to, and get a response from a web server - without reloading the page.

Q: What is Ajax?

The full name of the AJAX  is Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML.

AJAX is not a new programming language.It is a new way to use existing standards.These standards are web standards which used for create better, faster, and more user-friendly web applications.

We can say AJAX as a technique not a new programming language which is used for creating better, faster, and more interactive web applications.

AJAX is based on JavaScript and HTTP requests.Ajax used JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object  which communicate directly with the server. JavaScript can take data with a web server, without reloading the page.The XMLHttpRequest object is supported in IE 5.0+, Safari 1.2+, Mozilla 1.0+ / Firefox, Opera 8+, and Netscape 7+.

AJAX uses asynchronous data transfer (HTTP requests) between the web browser and the web server. This allows  web pages to request small bits of information from the server instead of post whole pages.

History Of Ajax

Basically AJAX is Based on Web Standards .It is  based on JavaScript, XML, HTML and CSS web standards. This is a library which is combination of these all standards.

AJAX was first  made popular in 2005 by Google. When Google has used  Ajax in  Google Suggest. Google suggest communicate with server without refreshing the page .In Google suggest when we enter any character then on release the key the request post to server and sever immediately response according that character .

e.g. When we enter "a" then Google suggest display all matches with a then and when we enter "ab" then all results with start "ab" will response by server.
 

You can refer following URL for more: This is link of Google suggest

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

So we can say Google is mother of Ajax.

AJAX is based on existing standards .Google combines these standards and make a library that  is call Ajax.  These standards have been used by most developers.

 

In this tutorial you will learn about Ajax and how you can make Ajax program step by step .We are covering  from begging to end .

In this tutorial you will learn how you can make a Ajax application .In this tutorials we are going to explain basics about Ajax.

Before start Ajax you should have a basic knowledge about following:

HTML/XHTML
JavaScript

AJAX (AJAX = Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML

 AJAX was first  made popular in 2005 by Google. When Google has used  Ajax (very first time )in  Google Suggest. Google suggest communicate with server without refreshing the page .

With Ajax we can make an web application more better ,faster, and more user friendly. Ajax is based on Javascript and HTTP requests.

AJAX Introductions
Ajax History
What is Ajax?
Ajax Advantage
How Install Ajax?