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Ajax seems like a great way to put a friendly interface on web services, and web services a great way to send data to Ajax applications. Unfortunately, connecting the two sides isn’t easy.
Ajax’s built-in abilities to access and manipulate XML data, the native format for almost all REST and SOAP web services, are powerful, but that’s only a foundation. Cross-domain commmunication and lightweight transformations from service-provided data into interface components especially demand planning and often infrastructure.
Want to use Ajax to access publicly available web services from Yahoo! and Google? You can, but you’ll need to learn how to use web proxies to access data on remote servers and how to transform XML data using XSLT. Want to know how? Read on!
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