Find out how to code a cross-browser XMLHttpRequest object, as well as some ways you can create AJAX pages without XMLHttpRequest support, with these detailed examples from the soon-to-be ...

When manually writing and maintaining the XMLHttpRequest code, a developer must deal with many potential problems, especially with cross-browser compatibilities like different DOM implementations.

Although you can work with XMLHttpRequest in the context of ajax.js and the Java Scripting API, you can alternatively take advantage of an all-Java version of this object.