TIBCO Software Inc. recently announced the availability of TIBCO AJAX Message Service Version 1.0, its enterprise messaging software. The service pushes live data and events from servers to Web pages, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications and other software.

TIBCO AMS enables data and events to stream to the client over the firewall-friendly and HTTP networks that make up corporate intranets and the Web. Meanwhile, as many users prefer to deliver applications to the Web browser, TIBCO's AMS requires no plug-ins, applets, Active-X controls or software installations to connect. The product features support for multiple concurrent users; performance monitoring; multiplexing to combine message streams over a single HTTP connection; throttling to detect available bandwidth and adjust data flows accordingly; and the filtering of data streams. Kevin Hakman, TIBCO director of product management, said with the recent growth of AJAX- based RIA (Rich Internet Applications), TIBCO sought to incorporate AJAX into its messaging capabilities to provide the opportunity for organizations to offer rich, interactive services and information such as real-time notifications, dashboards or financial services portfolio management and derivatives data via Web-based infrastructure. TIBCO AMS is a 'Comet' technology -- a type of application where the server keeps pushing (or streaming) data to the client, instead of having the browser keep polling the server for fresh content.