Standardization of Ajax

The Growing Clamor of Standardization of Ajax

It is amazing how Ajax has grown through the years. Since its inception from 2003, Ajax easily conquered the imagination of developers around the world.

Ajax has provided a viable alternative for developers wherein they would be able to provide RIA without dragging the local gadget while ensure data transportation and online interaction.

Eventually, Ajax moved from the sideline to the spotlight as developers from around the world scramble to build frameworks and software companies started to integrate their system with Ajax.

Anyone who is not able to adopt to Ajax are usually considered just too slow to adopt as they eventually did.

But now the dust have settled for Ajax developers, it is time to move to another phase to ensure success of this programming technique: standardization. Ajax is an open source programming technique that could be used and developed by everyone.

The codes could be copied and implemented without any problem although developers often like to build an Ajax based application.

In just a matter of five years, there are hundreds of frameworks and different techniques on how to execute a single function that almost anything could be possible for Ajax.

This actually creates a problem for upcoming developers. There are too many data to consider and too many techniques to learn that Ajax could be one complicated programming technique without any standardization.

A totally open programming technique will just encourage attacks. An open standard would basically mean that there is always a back door to every security protocol developers applied on their application.

Take a look at Silverlight, Flex and AIR. These technologies will really cost developers if they wanted to learn and implement applications based on these technologies.

When compared to Ajax, these programming languages, might even get close to the potential of Ajax as long as developers know their options.

But these programming languages provide something that is very hard to achieve in Ajax - simplicity through standardization.

Because these technologies follow a specific protocol, developers could easily learn these technologies and improve on it significantly in just a short amount of time.

That is why there are developers today who prefer to go for Silverlight and other licensed technologies. Added security and corporate support have led developers to believe that these technologies could build RIA without any security concerns.

The development of Ajax standardization rests on the hands of the OpenAjax Alliance. The software and technology leaders should double their efforts so that they could standardize this powerful programming technique.

Everyday, a new application is being built with Ajax and developers are using their own technique in building an application.

If the standardization will be implemented today, developers will have to make some changes in their application or might totally recode their application.

Standardization of an Ajax is urgent. Developers are waiting for the OpenAjax alliance to properly set the standards so that development of the application will be easier and security of the application will be properly enforced.  The longer it takes to standardize the programming technique, the harder it gets to secure Ajax.