This document provides an overview of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) including:
- AJAX allows web pages to be updated asynchronously by exchanging small amounts of data with the server without reloading the whole page.
- The advantages of AJAX include form data validation in real time and partial updates of web content to avoid full page reloads.
- The disadvantages include some search engine indexing issues and a lack of server information access within AJAX.
- AJAX works with browsers using the XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data with servers asynchronously.