1.5 Literature review

Introduction: This review is about “Toward a Mobile Rich Web Application – Mobile AJAX and Mobile Web 2.0” submitted by Jonathan Jeon. The target of this research paper is how to modify the technology of AJAX and explore the challenges that industry and young developers are facing in mobile browsing. Authors says in the paper that in web 2.0 version the new era of browsing have started where the browsing is not just limited to desktop it has taken mobile technology on the new level. So matching the requirements of developer and the industry a new breed of double AJAX(Asynchronous JS and XML) has been introduced to market. AJAX is been used know a days in almost every web application.

This literature shows the power of AJAX that how the in past few year the different kind of web application and development toolkits have joined the world of WWW. And the AJAX has made them more responsive, new ways of interaction in web apps and also AJAX is closing the gapes, between desktop and web apps.

Summarization of key points:In the research paper there are many points has discussed that shows why AJAX is being

used in almost every web application. AJAX is the main key point of the next generation web which is kwon by them name WEB 2.0 its not so much different from desktop AJAX do the same work in web 2.And the following;1) Interoperability of Mobile AJAX platforms and application2) Make the Best Practices for Mobile AJAX and Mobile Rich Web environment3) Interoperability between Mobile Widgets and Mobile AJAX4) Standardization for Mobile RWA(Rich Web Application)5) Accessibility and security issues of Mobile AJAX6) Offline capability of Mobile AJAX7) Mobile OK for Mobile AJAX8) Mobile Mash up and Mobile AJAX9) Browser extension and Mobile AJAX

But AJAX has few drawbacks like user must have a browser which supports JS, so that it can functional properly it’s the basic requirement of AJAX. Without it web application cant be loaded on user’s browser properly. Another issue which authors has discussed in the research paper is that how AJAX application UI is updated and when it dose, update may not be visually apparent to user that UI has been updated and it may also create some problems related to hardware like cpu performance issue , memory usage battery consumption problems. And the biggest problem is regarding to hardware which is data transmission which cause the heavy battery drainage because JavaScript XML/DOM/JSON operation uses a lot CPU power which in result cause slow performance.