Ajax in Action

By: Dave Crane

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Paperback | 8 November 2005

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How to create the next generation of cutting-edge web interfaces.Ajax exploded on the scene in the Spring of 2005 when a web site defined the term and Google released Google Maps and GMail, powerful examples of what Ajax can do. Ajax uses familiar web technologies - DHTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript - in radically different ways resulting in a much richer user experience. The key to success lies in knowing how to orchestrate them as a coherent whole, splitting off parts of what is normally done by the server and putting it into the browser for instantaneous response to user input. Ajax allows a new breed of web applications with the rich expressiveness of desktop applications.This book helps developers realize that promise - it explains the big picture and how to unlearn many old coding habits. It explains the design patterns and best practices to create a live interface for the user, not get in his way. It also discusses important Ajax issues: how to make good use of network bandwidth, and how to identify, and avoid, common Ajax pitfalls. The book is aimed at all web developers with prior experience in web technologies, independent of the server technologies used. Examples of server code in the book are in Java and .NET.The authors are Ajax developers with considerable depth of experience. They are bloggers and JavaRanch moderators.

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A new design for the Web	p. 3
Why Ajax rich clients?	p. 5
The four defining principles of Ajax	p. 17
Ajax rich clients in the real world	p. 24
Alternative to Ajax	p. 28
First steps with Ajax	p. 31
The key elements of Ajax	p. 32
Orchestrating the user experience with JavaScript	p. 34
Defining look and feel using CSS	p. 36
Organizing the view using the DOM	p. 45
Loading data asynchronously using XML technologies	p. 56
What sets Ajax apart	p. 65
Introducing order to Ajax	p. 69
Order out of chaos	p. 71
Some small refactoring case studies	p. 77
Model-view-controller	p. 91
Web server MVC	p. 93
Third-party libraries and frameworks	p. 103
The page as an application	p. 119
A different kind of MVC	p. 120
The view in an Ajax application	p. 124
The controller in an Ajax application	p. 134
Models in an Ajax application	p. 143
Generating the view from the model	p. 147
The role of the server	p. 159
Working with the server side	p. 160
Coding the server side	p. 161
The big picture : common server-side designs	p. 164
The details : exchanging data	p. 174
Writing to the server	p. 193
The user experience	p. 211
Getting it right : building a quality application	p. 212
Keeping the user informed	p. 216
Designing a notification system for Ajax	p. 222
Implementing a notification framework	p. 226
Using the framework with network requests	p. 237
Indicating freshness of data	p. 241
Security and Ajax	p. 246
JavaScript and browser security	p. 247
Communicating with remote services	p. 251
Protecting confidential data	p. 263
Policing access to Ajax data streams	p. 268
Performance	p. 279
What is performance?	p. 280
JavaScript execution speed	p. 281
JavaScript memory footprint	p. 302
Designing for performance	p. 311
Dynamic double combo	p. 327
A double-combo script	p. 328
The client-side architecture	p. 331
Implementing the server : VB.NET	p. 334
Presenting the results	p. 339
Advanced issues	p. 343
Refactoring	p. 345
Type-ahead suggest	p. 361
Examining type-ahead frameworks	p. 362
The server-side framework : C#	p. 366
The client-side framework	p. 369
Adding functionality : multiple elements with different queries	p. 392
Refactoring	p. 392
The enhanced Ajax web portal	p. 423
The evolving portal	p. 424
The Ajax portal architecture using Java	p. 427
The Ajax login	p. 429
Implementing DHTML windows	p. 439
Adding Ajax autosave functionality	p. 448
Refactoring	p. 453
Live search using XSLT	p. 466
Understanding the search techniques	p. 467
The client-side code	p. 473
The server-side code : PHP	p. 476
Combining the XSLT and XML documents	p. 481
Completing the search	p. 485
Refactoring	p. 491
Building stand-alone applications with Ajax	p. 503
Reading information from the outside world	p. 504
Creating the rich user interface	p. 509
Loading the RSS feeds	p. 518
Adding a rich transition effect	p. 524
Additional functionality	p. 528
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