Real-World AJAX, Secrets of the Masters

by Jim Benson, Kurt Cagle

Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters not only showcases the history, the process, and the inspiration behind AJAX, it also helps you design actual applications using JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Document Object Model (DOM) and XMLHttpRequestObject.

This book presents, from a completely vendor-neutral point of view, one of the most complete views of AJAX currently available. All the authors have been involved in using the approach since its beginning, many of them long before it ever became named "AJAX." Rather than staying at the platform-agnostic level, developers will find here real-world examples in all the main server-side technologies such as PHP, Java, .NET and ColdFusion. And the book includes the most detailed and comprehensive overview of Mobile AJAX ever published. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start understanding the basics of AJAX and will appeal equally to the enthusiast, Web developer, and corporate developer. It will help them implement AJAX in a better way. Advanced developers who want to enhance their AJAX skills will find the detailed code examples in the final chapters particularly valuable.

From high-level architecture constraints, such as cross-domain scripting, load management, and user-interface conventions, there's something in this book for everyone.

A process, not a technology, AJAX has changed the landscape of the Web. Armed with this book, you can become a part of that change.

627 pages, Paperback

First published March 19, 2007