It seems people have now finally begun to utilize these powerful techniques.. Which I have relied upon for years now.. As an XML Evangelist I’m not sure I like the format, but heck let’s see what the fuzz is all about… // Fini

as seen on slashdot: Michael Clark writes “Seen those funky remote scripting techniques employed by Orkut, Gmail and Google Suggests that avoid that oh so 80′s page reloading (think IBM 3270 only slower). A fledgling standard is developing to allow this new breed of fast and highly dynamic web applications to flourish.
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format with language bindings for C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, TCL and others. It is derived from JavaScript and it has similar expresive capabilities to XML. Perfect for the web as doesn’t suffer from XML’s bloat and is custom made for our defacto browser language.
JSON-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol similar to XML-RPC although it uses the lightweight JSON format instead of XML (so it is much faster).
The XMLHttpRequest object (or MSXML ActiveX in the case of Internet Explorer) is used in the browser to call remote methods on the server without the need for reloading the page.
JSON-RPC-Java is a Java implementation of the JSON-RPC protocol.
JSON-RPC-Java combines these all together to create an amazingly and simple way of developing these highly interactive type of enterprise java applications with JavaScript DHTML web front-ends.”

“Now is the turning point. Forget that horid wait while 100K of HTML downloads when the application just wanted to update one field on the page.
The XMLHttpRequest object has made it’s way into all the main browsers with it’s recent introduction into Opera and Konqueror (sans the Konqueror bug).
This new form of web development now works on Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari 1.2, Opera 8 Beta and Konqueror 3.3 (with a much needed patch).

Slashdot | What is JSON, JSON-RPC and JSON-RPC-Java?

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