Thanks for the nice short tutorial.

I guess with Ajax, since data is automatically loaded in the background , some type of database connection also happens. I recently refreshed my memory on how to make DB connections and pull data from the database. I've set up MySQL and I'm using JDBC to get the data in my Java app. I think now I could try Ajax.

I want to try a small example with Ajax and get started with it, I feel left behind otherwise :-( .

I'm curious about why it's called XmlHttpRequest --- so I guess there might be an equivalent XmlHttpResponse and I guess both the request and response appear in XML format.

I'm looking at this forum from a Linux machine with Firefox, some of the colors ine the above tutorial (blue on black, red on black) appear a little difficult on the eyes - perhaps everything looks fine on MS Windows. Also, not many people are on Linux anyway, so it's a minority for now.