OpenAjax Alliance was established for the goal increasing acceptability of Ajax as well as increasing security of the programming technique. It is already a given fact that Ajax is not a secured programming technique because of the various loopholes that could be exploited by attackers.
Not being secured enough, most businesses shy away from using AJAX technique since it could cost them their business. OpenAjax aims to address that problem as soon as possible.
One of the ways of OpenAjax alliance in solving security problem is to increase interoperability of different Ajax based frameworks. Mash-ups or the combination of frameworks and programming languages to develop an Ajax based application is often the target for an attack because of its incompatibility.
Every framework has its own build up of Ajax that may never be applicable to other frameworks. OpenAjax Alliance aims to answer this problem through increased interoperability not only to increase the functionality of frameworks but also to increase security of mash-ups.
OpenAjax aims to do this by establishing a powerful IDE (integrated development environment) that can be implemented in various frameworks. This IDE works easily with frameworks. Although OpenAjax is not aiming for a unified IDE, it is aiming that the IDEs of different frameworks will acknowledge one another in order to build a highly efficient mash-up.
Through that acknowledgement developers will also have the ability to port their knowledge to different frameworks. Again the unified IDE is not there but the principle that will be governing IDEs in different frameworks will be the bases for easy adoption.
The Alliance plans to do this by establishing a unified metadata, aptly called OpenAjax Metadata. This type of metadata could be used in developing JavaScript API which can be ported to different Ajax based applications. The metadata could become the source of information that can be easily interpreted by different frameworks.
Developers would then have an easy task of understanding metadata across frameworks. Through this, they would be able to adapt their knowledge to different frameworks because of their basic knowledge of the metadata.
OpenAjax would, of course, be compatible with XML so that it can be applied to regularly coded Ajax based applications which were developed through JavaScript.
You may have noticed that OpenAjax Alliance would plan to implement them through API. Using API is probably the smartest way in developing an Ajax based application. Developers could just build an application and any function they would need could be found online as an API and install them to create a better application.
APIs are like puzzle pieces that could be pieced together by developers. They can make them perfectly fit the application for better interactivity.
OpenAjax would use API so that it could help developers who use the framework not only to build an application but build parts through mash-ups that could be later used in different applications.
Instead of building an application from scratch, developers could just piece together an Ajax based application through different functions they have already developed. By working on an API, OpenAjax aims to help every developer secure their application while increasing interoperability.
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