Hello,
AJAX is already used in the Midtier - AJAX is nothing special, but three lines
of Javascript to make an HTTP request without reloading the page. It was
originally designed to allow Javascript to make calls to a webserver (or more
specifically, a CGI/Servlet/etc.) in order to retrieve XML Documents.
However, people now use it for all sorts of stuff - but it's really nothing
more than an HTTP request returning data.
So, to answer your question, anyone using MT6.3 is "using AJAX" - or rather,
they are using the 'XMLHttpRequest' JS object.
But what I think you're asking is, how can you integrate some bespoke
Javascript into MT6.3 in order to pull data from Sonic MQ? The answer is, not
very easily. MT6.3/7.0 was not built with 'development' in mind - there's no
JSP page and it's a lot of effort to do anything. Saying that, I've had a
look at the 'Data visualisation' stuff in 7.0 and I guess you could write
something in that, but it's very long winded.
Perhaps your best bet is to write something that runs standalone and display
it in a 'view field' (also known as an iframe).
AjAX is a funny term: Like so many other 'buzzterms' in IT today
("Enterprise", "CMDB", "J2EE", "JMS"), it's really not at all complex.
John
Java System Solutions : http://www.javasystemsolutions.com
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