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AJAX represents group of techniques of exchanging data between client web browser and server without refreshing whole page. You can seamlessly pull data from server and present it in some DIV container, for example. Javascript is used to perform AJAX calls, data is usually exchanged in XML format, and HTML is used to present data to user.