Delivering the Goods

AJAX and other Web 2.0 technologies continue to have explosive growth. Increasingly, the pressure is on to deliver fast, lightweight and secure apps with the new technology. But developers face a number of hurdles. As so often happens in the software world, this is a case of an initial technology being used for something it was never designed for. HTTP was never meant to do what we're now asking of it. So there are performance issues. There are also security risks. In "The AJAX Application Delivery Challenge," Lori MacVittie lays out the problems facing Web 2.0.

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