American Coders have come out with a free white paper on AJAX and EDI. This paper discusses the techniques used for creating web applications using AJAX technology. The paper can be checked out at http://www.americancoders.com/AJAX_EDI_OBOE.pdf.

This paper discusses a methodology for using AJAX along with a standard EDI message specification in order to jump start the process of web based EDI application generation. This technique allows for quicker development time that leverages EDI standards.

The paper covers three areas of web server technology - Javascript objects to parse XML definitions used for the user entry screen, displaying the screen, editing the user data and sending the user response to the user. Secondly it covers the Ajax technology in order to receive the XML definitions and send the user response back to the server and thirdly it offers an overview of the necessary Java servlet technology running on the server.