Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX) is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications or rich Internet applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
APE (Ajax Push Engine) is an open source technology allowing to exchange data between thousands of users through a web browser, without reloading. APE only uses web standards (with the use of AJAX). You do not need any plugins to be installed on your web browser. Data is sent, live, to thousands of clients, in a JavaScript socket fashion. It allows you to write real-time web applications without using any client plugins (Java, Flash...). The APE Project is 100 % Open Source and FREE for commercial and non-commercial use, released under the GNU Public Licence version 2.
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