TESTING JSON

Getting data form an ajax call using JSON format

When performing an Ajax call, the JSON format is an alternative to the XML format. JSON which offers following advantages:

• The JSON format, being the same of the Javascript Object Literal, should be more familiar to Javascript programmers than XML
• Using JQuery usally there is not big difference in coding an Ajax call or coding a JSON call
• In many scenarios JSON allows to solve the issues of the Same Origin Policy (concerning Ajax)

Results of the first example: getting data from the json_data_1.js file (a very simple JSON call).

Results of the second example (same call, same source file, but using the Ajax API):

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