15Analysis of Ajax Frameworks

Myth: Ajax is secure as long as you use a third-party framework.

Third-party Ajax frameworks are great tools that can help organizations create robust, attractive applications in a fraction of the time it would take to write them from scratch. Developers can focus their efforts on implementing their particular business requirements rather than spending time reinventing the wheel by creating their own Ajax message processing. The downside to the use of a third-party framework is that any defect inherent in the framework will be present in the framework-derived application as well. This includes security defects.

In this chapter, we examine some of the most popular third-party server-side Ajax frameworks for ASP.NET, ...

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