Chapter 4. Ajax Communication

Ajax is the very backbone of an Ajax toolkit, providing the developer with useful methods to take full control of the JavaScript client's communication with the server it was loaded from.

In recent years, new ways of transporting data have been implemented that do not require the data to be located on the same server. Even though those methods of transport are of another kind (dojo.io.script, below, for example), they are still managed in a similar manner in Dojo.