Future Promise, but also challenges

AJAX is not without its challenges. After all, the J stands for JavaScript, which ( is ) described as “difficult to debug, difficult to deploy in large applications and convoluted.” And for AJAX to continue innovating, all Web browsers will have to ( innovate ).

“If you take any existing enterprise app… and lay AJAX on top, it requires a fair amount of reengineering on the server side as to how the application is actually built.”( 2 )
Robert Lepack, Vice President, Marketing, ICESoft Technologies

“AJAX also emphasizes complex, client-side coding, whereas the market focus in the last five years has been server-side work” ( 3 )
Brian Goldfarb, lead product manager, Web platform and tools, Microsoft.