xmlHttpRequest

Hi,

I have an ASP project in hand, with mission to upgrade to J2EE
plateform (for many reasons that are not the purpose of this discussion )
I have heard and read a lot about AJAX and xmlHttpRequest. We have
already used it a bit in this ASP project to ease the work of some
screen updates.
Now we are at the phase 1 of the J2EE project, that is redesigning the
web-app, and implement from the base the API or methods we need.
My question is: is it safe to use this xmlHttpRequest in our system and
actually use it intensively?
My concerns is that eventually, this powerful little object might be
removed from future release of the browsers, for some reason removed
from JS scpecs or whatever reason.
Ok, I don't know which fool would do that, but...

Thanks

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On 2005-12-10, JScoobyCed <pim (AT) pam (DOT) poum> wrote:

Hi,

I have an ASP project in hand, with mission to upgrade to J2EE
plateform (for many reasons that are not the purpose of this discussion )
I have heard and read a lot about AJAX and xmlHttpRequest. We have
already used it a bit in this ASP project to ease the work of some
screen updates.
Now we are at the phase 1 of the J2EE project, that is redesigning the
web-app, and implement from the base the API or methods we need.
My question is: is it safe to use this xmlHttpRequest in our system and
actually use it intensively?
My concerns is that eventually, this powerful little object might be
removed from future release of the browsers, for some reason removed
from JS scpecs or whatever reason.
Ok, I don't know which fool would do that, but...

it is surrounded by heavy security rules in that the requests must go to the
same server that served the page, and it doesn't provide any greater
security risk to the client than executing javascript does so no. I don't
see any reason for it to be discontinued.

one possible change is that it may at some stage become a built-in in IE
like it is currently in mozilla instead of being an activeX object.



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Bye.
Jasen