Enterprise Ajax Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications

Build reliable and scalable web-based applications at the enterprise level using AJAX. AJAX enables web pages to work faster and more intuitively. It allows Web applications to look and feel more like traditional applications. Web applications using AJAX have already started to replace standard desktop applications, generating a growing interest in how AJAX can actually make in-roads in the enterprise. Enterprise AJAX addresses this trend by going beyond the basics to show real results from AJAX performance benchmarking, user interface interaction testing, and customer implementations. This book contains valuable AJAX architectural patterns as well as case studies from real enterprise applications and examples based around both .NET and Java, the two dominant enterprise application frameworks. The authors highlight important enterprise AJAX techniques and present them in the context of the Gang of Four design patterns. The topics in this book are extensions of traditional enterprise development patterns, but amplified to leverage the power of AJAX. This book Provides a concise introduction to AJAX fundamentals Looks at the details of some of the popular AJAX frameworks Shows how to build component-based AJAX applications Helps understand the role of AJAX in the future of the enterprise by looking at competing and complementary technologies Discusses advanced topics such as declarative JavaScript programming Enterprise AJAX is geared towards developers of large scale systems who want to try out this new development methodology, whether to migrate legacy HTML interfaces to AJAX or to build new applications not possible before AJAX. At the same time, information architects, user-interface designers, and usability engineers will turn to this book to increase the performance of existing user interfaces and to ensure distributed applications run as intended. Chapter 1 Ajax And Rich Internet Applications Chapter 2 Ajax Building Blocks Chapter 3 Ajax in the Web Browser Chapter 4 Ajax Components Chapter 5 Design to Deployment Chapter 6 Ajax Architecture Chapter 7 Web Services and Security Chapter 8 Ajax Usability Chapter 9 User Interface Patterns Chapter 10 Risks and Best Practices Chapter 11 Case StudiesWhite, Alexei is the author of 'Enterprise Ajax Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications', published 2007 under ISBN 9780132242066 and ISBN 0132242060.