XMLHttpRequest & Ajax Based Applications Exposed to the masses with Google's Gmail, XMLHttpRequest can get the client side chatting with the server side. The result can be a faster performing web service/ application. The whole gamut of technologies that make up an XMLHttpRequest enabled web service was dubbed AJAX by the folks at Adaptive Path, short for asynchronous javaScript + XML. Oldskoolers like to call it remote scripting... in AJAX, CSS, JSP, Jettywith ajaxweb2.0xhrxmlhttprequest