Ajax vs webservices

Question

what is different between ajax and webservices. Anybody provide with some examples?

Answer 1

It's nonsensical to compare these things.

"Ajax" is a process that occurs in the browser. It is the act of calling some local server-side page, without refreshing the "main" viewing area, and then doing various things with that result (grabbing the data, making changes, changing the existing DOM (adding elements), whatever).

Webservices are a Serverside-thing that allows you to call methods, in your code, but have that call actually go to a remote machine. The call to the Webservice is generally also made server-side.

Answer 2

The term "Ajax" is generally used :

• When the request is sent by a browser (client-side) to a server
• When the transfered data is XML or JSON or HTML.

The word "webservice" is generally used :

• When the request is sent by a server to another server, without a browser being involved
• When the transfered data is SOAP -- at least when it's a SOAP webservice ^^ (Opposed to REST, for instance, which generally doesn't imply SOAP)

But I'd say that Ajax is basically some specific kind of webservice.