I just finished a project that used a lookup similar to a Win32 app.

It contained a couple text input boxes: Name, Department, Office, Title and Phone. They enter in a name and on exit, it looks up the user.

If the query finds only one user, it pulls the data back as XML and populates the remaining fields and moves on. If not, then it pops up a lookup window with the list of records it found from the text input.

Pretty kewl performance. Gotta find more places to use it.

L8R,
Vito

I’ve tried and tried to think of a good use for Ajax on my new site and I couldn’t think of one. I did use XMLHTTP to send a request to the server behind the scenes (for flagging an item ‘off-topic’ or ‘innapropriate’ etc.), but I didn’t need any data back or confirmation, so I never handle the response. Does that still “count” as Ajax usage?

I am using this technology on my site and it appears to work-out in most cases. There are some issues with some browsers, since they don’t support XMLHttpRequest (i.e. Konqueror, IE5.2.3(mac), and Opera [prior to 8]).

It is definitely a great technology to play around with, however the limitations are written all over it, or rather giving it a justifiable use. I can see this (the search implementation) having major impact on libraries, and pratically any site with heavy content (i.e. knowledgebase), but as far as weblogs go, I think in most cases, it is unnecessary.

XMLHttpRequest is not new, it just needs to be marketed well – Apple (Mac OS X Tiger), Google (Google Suggest) and Microsoft (who knows what) seems to invest a lot of resources.

Excellent, that was really well explained and helpful

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I have created a file and a list of items to be added in to the list from the Database(SQL server) and how can i achieve the data from the data base to ajax and from ajax to the jsp page.