8.7. Summary

With a couple side trips into the magical worlds of XML, XML-RPC, SOAP, and MySQL stored functions and procedures, we've touched upon every part of Ajax as it stands at the time of this writing. Alright, maybe the MySQL part doesn't directly apply to Ajax because it would work perfectly well without it, but it does illustrate some of the possibilities that exist. As a matter of fact, both Oracle and SQL Server have XML support built in, so why shouldn't we "fake it" in MySQL?

Unarguably, what does directly apply to Ajax is the use of the XMLHttpRequest object, without which the examples shown in this chapter would be impossible.