AJAX for E-Business

Goal: Provide developers with a framework to build ‘AJAX-oriented’ E-business web applications. What is AJAX? Asynchronous JavaScript And XML; a new web development technique for creating dynamic web applications with uninterrupted user interaction.

The framework consists of :1. GUI - the IDE for the application developer.2. Graphical Control Library. 3. Mark-up language to provide the developer with a means of specifying an interface based on the provided Graphical Controls.

Design area

Code area

Created as a third year project by Dinuk Weerasanghe, Kevin Aubeelack & Parvesh Chugani

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Graphical Controls

Snapshot of the integrated development environment.

The snapshot illustrates how the IDE provides an intuitive interaction

between the mark-up language (code area), the rendered HTML

representation (design area) and the Graphical Controls.