Ajax may refer to:

Mythology

• Ajax (mythology), son of Telamon and a hero in the Trojan war, also known as "Ajax the Great"
• Ajax the Lesser, son of Oileus and also a hero in the Trojan war

People

• Ajax (missionary), Arian missionary who converted the pagan Suevi c. 466

Information technology

• Ajax (programming) (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), a technique used in web application development
• Ajax framework, a framework for the Ajax technique
• Ajax (floppy disk controller), a floppy disk controller fitted to the Atari STE

Football

• AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Ajax America, also known as Ajax Orlando, an American soccer team from Orlando, Florida
• Ajax Cape Town FC, a South African football club
• Ajax Kenitra, a Moroccan futsal (indoor football) club
• FC Ajax Lasnamäe, an Estonian football club
• Rabat Ajax, a Maltese football club
• Ajax Sportman Combinatie (ASC), a cricket and football club in Leiden, The Netherlands
• Aias Salaminas F.C., a football club based in Salamina, Greece birthplace of Ajax the Telamonian
• Unión Ájax, a football club in Trujillo, Honduras

Horse racing

• Ajax (horse), a champion Australian racehorse of the 1930s

Vehicles

• Ajax (1906 automobile), Aigner, Switzerland
• Ajax (1913 automobile), Briscoe, France
• Ajax (1914 automobile), Seattle, Washington, U.S.
• Ajax (1921 automobile), prototype, U.S.
• Ajax (American automobile), Nash Motors, 1925–1926, U.S.
• Ajax Electric (automobile), electric, U.S., introduced 1901 in New York
• HMS Ajax, several ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Ajax, several ships of the United States
• Ajax (1860 locomotive), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives, in service 1860-1884
• Ajax (1927 locomotive), a LMS Royal Scot Class express locomotive, in service 1927-1962
• Ayaks, a Soviet top secret aerospacecraft project

Fiction

• Ajax (Sophocles), one of the seven surviving plays by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles
• Ajax (Disney), a fictional company (the Disney equivalent of Looney Tunes' Acme Corporation)
• Ajax Duckman, a character in the animated television series Duckman
• Martian Manhunter, a comic superhero called Ajax in Brazil and Portugal
• Ajax (comics), the name of two fictional characters from the Marvel Universe
• Ajax Calkins, a character in Destiny's Orbit and Destination Saturn by Donald Wollheim
• Ajax (Dune), one of the 20 cyborg titans who ruled mankind in the Legends of Dune novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson before Omnius the Evermind gained control.
• Rocket Ajax - From the film Flash Gordon
• Ajak, another Marvel Comics character, a member of the Eternals, sometimes known as "Ajax the Greater"

Music

• Ajax (band), an electronic band from New York City
• Ajax (DJ), an Australian Electro mashup DJ
• Ajax Widowmaker, a horrorcore rap artist
• Ajax Records (Chicago), a Chicago based independent record label active in the later 20th century
• Ajax Records (Quebec) (1921 - 1926), a North American record company
• AjaX, The Pop Culture Suicides keyboardist
• Ajax Starglider, an American hip-hop artist from the group Future Shock

Places

• Ajax, Ontario, a town in Canada
• Ajax GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the town
• Aspen Mountain (Colorado), also known as Ajax Mountain

Other

• Ajax (arcade game), a 1987 shoot 'em up arcade game released by Konami
• Ajax (cleanser), a household cleaner
• Operation Ajax, a 1953 Anglo-American covert operation to overthrow the government of Iran
• Apatosaurus ajax, the type species of the Apatosaurus genus of sauropod dinosaurs
• Nike Ajax, an American anti-aircraft missile system
• 1404 Ajax, an asteroid
• Ajax (toilet), an early flush toilet invented in England in 1596
• Ajax (The Warriors), a member of The Warriors gang

Biography

The band has put eight tracks, set to be featured on their 4 EP (Double Album in 4 parts) debut, up for listening on their official MySpace website at various times, these tracks are;

• Introduction: To Have Lived and Died in The 21st Century (Prelude: Act I -Instru-Mental)
• The Art of the Bruise
• Th3 D151llv510n3d [R3]v0lvt10n
• Whatever The Future Holds (The Closing Credits - Instru-Mental)
• Nothing
• BACK DOWN TO me
• Apocalyptic Love Song

During the week of monday March 24th, 2007 the band released new songs on their myspace page as a preview for their 4 EP debut. Each new song was left on the site for a period of 24 hours after which it was replaced by a new track, these songs included;

• The Skin I'm In
• Pretty Ugly and the Secret Society
• Personality Crisis
• A Butterfly In A Hurricane
• and a cover of Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth

Members

• Haze Lee Finn — vocals, guitar
• Zim Zum — lead guitar, backing vocals
• Ajax — keyboards
• Trey — bass
• Baron — drums

Former members

• Azland — bass
• Faust Flag — drums

External links

• Official Pop Culture Suicides website
• The Pop Culture Suicides at MySpace
• The Pop Culture Suicides at MusicMoz

Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML), or AJAX, is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications or rich Internet applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Data is retrieved using the XMLHttpRequest object or through the use of Remote Scripting in browsers that do not support it. Despite the name, the use of JavaScript, XML, or asynchrony is not required.

History

Technologies

• XHTML and CSS for presentation
• the Document Object Model for dynamic display of and interaction with data
• XML and XSLT for the interchange and manipulation of data, respectively
• the XMLHttpRequest object for asynchronous communication
• JavaScript to bring these technologies together

Since then, however, there have been a number of developments in the technologies used in an Ajax application, and the definition of the term Ajax. In particular, it has been noted that:

• JavaScript is not the only client-side scripting language that can be used for implementing an Ajax application. Other languages such as VBScript are also capable of the required functionality.
• the XMLHttpRequest object is not necessary for asynchronous communication. It has been noted that IFrames are capable of the same effect.
• XML is not required for data interchange and therefore XSLT is not required for the manipulation of data. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is often used as an alternative format for data interchange, although other formats such as preformatted HTML or plain text can also be used.

Critique

Advantages

• In many cases, the pages on a website consist of much content that is common between them. Using traditional methods, that content would have to be reloaded on every request. However, using Ajax, a web application can request only the content that needs to be updated, thus drastically reducing bandwidth usage.
• Because only sections of pages need to be reloaded, Ajax allows for much more responsive web applications, giving users the feeling that changes are happening instantaneously.
• The use of Ajax can reduce connections to the server, since scripts and style sheets only have to be requested once.

Disadvantages

• Dynamically created pages do not register themselves with the browser's history engine, so clicking the browser's "back" button would not return the user to an earlier state of the Ajax-enabled page, but would instead return them to the last page visited before it. Workarounds include the use of invisible IFrames to trigger changes in the browser's history.
• Dynamic Web page updates also make it difficult for a user to bookmark a particular state of the application. Solutions to this problem exist, many of which use the URL fragment identifier (the portion of a URL after the '#') to keep track of, and allow users to return to, the application in a given state.
• Because most web crawlers do not execute JavaScript code, web applications should provide an alternative means of accessing the content that would normally be retrieved with Ajax, to allow search engines to index it.
• Any user whose browser does not support Ajax or JavaScript, or simply has JavaScript disabled, will not be able to use its functionality. Similarly, devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, and screen readers may not have support for JavaScript or the XMLHttpRequest object. Also, screen readers that are able to use Ajax may not properly read the dynamically generated content.
• The same origin policy prevents Ajax from being used across domains, although the W3C has a draft that would enable this functionality.

See also

• Ajax framework
• Reverse Ajax
• Rich Internet application
• XMLHttpRequest

References

External links

• AJAX at the Open Directory Project.
• Ajax Tutorial with get, post, text and XML examples.
• Attacking AJAX Applications Presentation on Ajax Security issues given at the Black Hat security conference.