Advanced AJAX with JSON
By Kris Hadlock | Oct 13, 2006There’s no doubt that AJAX is a powerful and user-enhancing group of technologies, but its many possibilities still aren’t widely known. In this article, we’ll take a look at how easy it can be to create an extremely powerful data transfer between the server and the client-side AJAX engine, using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and the JSON parser. We’ll explore how to create a group of objects (often referred to as a package in other languages), how to serialize the objects as JSON to be sent to the server, and how to deserialize server-side JSON as client-side JavaScript objects.
