Platform for Remotely Monitoring the Client-Side - AJAX Projects in IEEE

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Platform for Remotely Monitoring the Client-Side

A web developer wants to update a web page with data from a web server he will probably pick the approach of sending a HTTP request to the server and getting back the entire page with the new data. Such an approach sufferers from several disadvantages web developer encounters, is the increasing demands to upgrade the web page design while the set of tools they can use divides to either very simple ones (HTML,DHTML) or more sophisticated ones that requires diving into technologies like Java Applets and Flash.

There was a need for the missing component that will enable new design abilities that can be developed quickly and easily. Ourgoal in designing a new performance tool was to provide detailed, flexible performance information without incurring the space (and time) overhead typically associated with trace-based tools. One of the major concerns of information technology (IT) in the present historical moment is making the Web and web applications as efficient as possible. This insures a business' competitive edge in this era where operating systems and applications are increasingly accessed and/or stored on the Internet.

Web applications that can function on a variety of platforms or in a variety of contexts have been difficult to attain. Third-party protocols like Flash or Java's "applets" have tried to bring more dynamism and user-friendly interactivity to web applications. Other limitations of using web applications are the frustration and workflow interruptions that come from page-loading delays.

However, the technologies encompassed in Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) try to enable web applications so they can function quickly and efficiently in a variety of contexts without this lag time.