jQuery: Microsoft to Adopt jQuery JavaScript Library

Microsoft plans to incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into its Visual Studio platform and use within Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX framework and ASP.NET MVC Framework. Additionally, Microsoft will be developing additional controls, or widgets, to run on top of jQuery that will be easily deployable within .NET applications.

AJAX is a web application framework and methodology that can retrieve data from a server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page, and has been in use for some time with several of ISS Group's solutions - such as iPurchase, iQuote and iPortal - to bring the "web 2.0" look and feel to the end user.

According to the jQuery Website, "jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and AJAX interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript."

ISS Group has been using jQuery since 2007, realizing it would extremely benefit its Customers utilizing Progress Corporation's WebSpeed and Database, Microsofts Dynamics CRM and SQL Database, and the many integration points between them.