For a single ajax request this doesn't save much (just call the functions you need to call from the success() method). In fact, if used poorly it may obfuscate

For a single ajax request this doesn't save much (just call the functions you need to call from the success() method). In fact, if used poorly it may obfuscate the program flow. However, the "when" example looks interesting. I'm new to JS and JQ, so I haven't run into that problem yet (and known it!), but at this point I would have to, for each ajax query, set some sort of "state" bool and call the function I want to run. Only when all the bools were set to true- meaning all calls found success- would the function execute. The "when" approach is much more elegant.