Integrating AJAX and Web Services for Cooperative Image Editing

AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a powerful Web development model for browser-based Web applications. While Web services essentially are universally accessible software components deployed on the Web and designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Because technologies that support both AJAX and Web services are XML-based, the two can leverage each others´ strengths. More and more companies and organizations are taking advantage of this relationship, working to improve their Web applications through AJAX and Web services. Our system integrates the two for Web-based cooperative image editing. For message exchange delays and browser security limitations have hampered Web-based cooperative image editing. This integration resolves these issues and offers a framework for generic cooperative business processes