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a mythical Greek hero; a warrior who fought against Troy in the Iliad

(Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) A collectionof techniques for creating interactive web applicationswithout having to reload the complete web page in responseto each user input, thus making the interaction faster. AJAXtypically uses the XMLHttpRequest browser object to exchangedata asynchronously with the web server. Alternatively, anIFrame object or dynamically added tags may be usedinstead of XMLHttpRequest.Despite the name, Ajax can combine any browser scriptinglanguage (not just JavaScript) and any data representation(not just XML). Alternative data formats include HTML,plain text or JSON.Several Ajax frameworks are now available to simplify Ajaxdevelopment.