Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet

AJAX: fast mastery for experienced Web developers!


Already an experienced Web developer? Apply your skills in today’s fastest-growing area of Web development: AJAX!



Building on what you already know, this fast-paced guide will show you exactly how to create rich, usable Internet applications. Joshua Eichorn teaches through sophisticated code examples, including extensive server-side PHP code.



You won’t just learn how to code AJAX applications: Eichorn covers the entire development lifecycle, from use cases and design through debugging. He also presents detailed application case studies, including a start-to-finish update of a non-AJAX application that addresses everything from feature improvements to changing usage patterns. Coverage includes:



· How AJAX changes the conventional Web development cycle

· Problems created by the AJAX paradigm -- and how to avoid them

· Adding AJAX to existing Web applications: key considerations

· Using core AJAX technologies, including the XMLHttpRequest object

· Consuming data returned to an AJAX application using both XSLT and JSON

· Building more usable AJAX applications: guidelines and downloadable resources

· Use cases: solving real-world problems in the AJAX environment

· Libraries and toolkits for simplifying AJAX development, including Sarissa, scriptaculous, and HTML_AJAX

· A complete guide to AJAX debugging

· Supporting browsers without XMLHttpRequest by using IFrames or cookies

· JSON data encoding debugging guide, which covers tools for Firefox and Internet Explorer

· A list of libraries, which includes PHP, .NET, Java, and other libraries that can be used with any server language

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GWT in Action: Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit

The Google Web Toolkit is a new technology that automatically translates Java into
JavaScript, making Ajax applications easier to code and deploy. GWT in Action is a
comprehensive tutorial for Java developers interested in building the next
generation of rich, web-based applications. This book was written by Robert Hanson,
creator of the popular GWT Widget Library and Adam Tacy a major contributor to the
GWT Widget Library.

There is a new emphasis on building rich, web-based applications. These applications
can be difficult to build because they rely on JavaScript, which lacks the
sophisticated object-oriented structures and static typing of Java, they are tricky
to debug, and they require you to manage numerous browser inconsistencies.

In May of 2006 Google released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT enables developers
to create Ajax applications in Java. With GWT, you can build your applications using
a real object-oriented language and take advantage of Java tools like Eclipse that
are already available. Instead of trying to bring tool support to Ajax, Google brought
Ajax to a place where the tools already existed.

GWT in Action shows you how to take advantage of these exciting new tools. Readers will
follow an example running throughout the book and quickly master the basics of GWT:
widgets, panels, and event handling. The book covers the full development cycle, from
setting up your development environment, to building the application, then deploying it
to the web server. The entire core GWT library is discussed, with details and examples
on how it can be extended.

GWT helps you make the most of Ajax in your web applications and GWT in Action helps you
get more out of GWT. Readers can download Early Access Chapters of GWT in Action now and
participate in the Author Forum by visiting at the Manning site.


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Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional aims to give you the skills you need to start building web applications with Microsoft’s next–generation technology as quickly as possible. Whether you’re interested in ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, or the technologies that support them (WPF, WCF, WF, etc.), this book is the starting point that you need.

It adopts a “zero to hero” approach that concentrates on achieving practical results you can use in real projects rather than presenting a deep academic treatment that can’t be immediately applied.

The aim is to give you, the reader, the knowledge you need to achieve the results you want with the minimum of fuss. When you’ve read this book, you’ll have a solid understand of all the techniques that are available, when to use them, and their relative strengths and weaknesses.

What you’ll learn

• Create next–generation web applications quickly and easily!
  
• Manipulate data, display information, and communicate with other services using the latest ASP.NET techniques and best practices.
  
• Discover how the .NET 3.0 extensions (WPF, WCF, and WF) can make your web applications faster, more efficient, and easier to code than ever.
  
• Understand how ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight can be integrated into your ASP.NET websites in order to provide a cutting–edge user interface for your applications and the implications that such interfaces can have.
  

Who is this book for?
This book is for anyone with an interest in using Microsoft’s latest web development technologies.

A basic familiarity with the .NET platform is useful, but anyone with an understanding of a web development language will benefit from the book, as all the key topics are presented from first principals.

About the Author
Laurence Moroney is the Director of Technology Evangelism at Mainsoft, the cross-platform development company. He has over 10 years in software development and architecture, specializing in interoperability, security and performance in such diverse environments as Casinos, Jails, the Border Patrol, Airports, Professional Soccer and Financial Services. He has written several books on computing, including some on Web Services Security, ASP.NET and Java/.NET interoperability, as well as dozens of articles on various technology issues.

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Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites

This is the eBook version of the printed book.
After learning the language of design, how does one effectively use standards-based technologies to create visually strong Web sites? The full-color Professional Web Standards Design and Development gives developers a peek into the process of the best designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world Web sites that made them famous. The book focuses on deconstructing these top-tier large-scale sites with particular attention given to deconstructing CSS.

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