Gaiaware is a highly respected software designer who develops tools used by the web app community. They’re mostly known for providing the means to create AJAX apps, and now they’ve released their latest code, Gaia Ajax 3.6. With this release they’ve greatly improved AJAX development using the ASP.NET platform.
With Gaia Ajax 3.6, the enhancement you’ll be wanting to keep an eye on is DRIMR (Dynamic Removals, Inserts, Moves and Replacements). This technology basically takes many of the details and complexities of AJAX, then optimizes it for ASP.NET. Here’s a list of benefits you’ll find with Gaiaware’s DRIMR:
-You can move a control between Control Collections and we’ll just move the control in the Browser too 
- You can remove a control and replace it with a new control and if they are of the same type, we will reuse that instance in the Browser and only emit the state changes. A great example is paging/sorting in the GridView: Only the Text property of the Labels get’s serialized.
- You can remove a control entirely and we’ll just issue a RemoveControlCommand to the Browser, not touching anything else.
- It also means a lot more to you, but we’ll just have to expand information on this topic as we go.
Gaiaware is hoping the concept of DRIMR will help developers utilize code that helps keep re-rendering strategies at bay. There’s an image on Gaiaware’s blog that shows what DRIMR is all about, showing how DRIMR acts as a center puzzle piece to all the various aspects of development.
Stian Solberg, cofounder of Gaiaware discusses the benefits of DRIMR, “The basic concept of ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanels is that you surround an area where you want to update HTML so you don’t disrupt the whole page, and this often leads to writing unnecessary HTML” he continues, “But now, with DRIMR, because we’ve built our own AJAX engine, we are able to insert controls anywhere in the page without re-rendering.”
What’s most impressive about Gaia Ajax 3.6 is that DRIMR is just one function of the product. Gaiaware’s blog post I linked to previously, has a slew of more details if you’re interested.