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Microsoft is promoting an alternative to AJAX known as Asynchronous Ruby and XML (ARAX). At the RailsConf conference for Ruby on Rails developers, Job Lam, creator of the IronRuby project at Microsoft, said that as Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application environment is adopted, it will provide Ruby developers with a way to deliver AJAX-style applications without having to use JavaScript. Lam says using ARAX will allow Ruby developers to not have to use tools such as the Ruby JavaScript (RJS) utility for generating JavaScript code for the client.