Ajax in three bullets

• Ajax stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML"
• Ajax is a set of technologies that enables the web client to asynchronously request data to servers without the need of refreshing the page
• These days, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has largely taken over the place of XML as the response data format from servers

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