Ajax for Web Application Developers

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Reusable components and patterns for Ajax-driven applications

 

Ajax is one of the latest and greatest ways to improve users’ online experience and create new and innovative web functionality. By allowing specific parts of a web page to be displayed without refreshing the entire page, Ajax significantly enhances the experience of web applications. It also lets web developers create intuitive and innovative interaction processes.

 

Ajax for Web Application Developers provides the in-depth working knowledge of Ajax that web developers need to take their web applications to the next level. The book shows how to create an Ajax-driven web application from an object-oriented perspective, and it includes discussion of several useful Ajax design patterns.

 

This detailed guide covers the creation of connections to a MySQL database with PHP 5 via a custom Ajax engine and shows how to gracefully format the response with CSS, JavaScript, and XHTML while keeping the data tightly secure. It also covers the use of four custom Ajax-enabled components in an application and how to create each of them from scratch.

 

The final section of the book combines the individual code examples and techniques from earlier chapters of the book into one larger, Ajax-driven application–an internal web mail application that can be used in any user-based application, such as a community-based web application. Readers will learn not only how to create and use their own reusable Ajax components in this application

but also how to connect their components to any future Ajax applications that they might build.

 

Web Development/Ajax/JavaScript

 

$34.99 USA / $43.99 CAN / £24.99 Net UK

 

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AJAX: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

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The Easy, Example-Based Guide to Ajax for Every Web Developer

 

Using Ajax, you can build Web applications with the sophistication and usability of traditional desktop

applications and you can do it using standards and open source software. Now, for the first time,

there’s an easy, example-driven guide to Ajax for every Web and open source developer, regardless of

experience.

 

Edmond Woychowsky begins with simple techniques involving only HTML and basic JavaScript. Then,

one step at a time, he introduces techniques for building increasingly rich applications. Don’t worry if

you’re not an expert on Ajax’s underlying technologies; Woychowsky offers refreshers on them, from

JavaScript to the XMLHttpRequest object. You’ll also find multiple open source technologies and open

standards throughout, ranging from Firefox to Ruby and MySQL.

 

You’ll not only learn how to write “functional” code, but also master design patterns for writing rocksolid,

high-performance Ajax applications. You’ll also learn how to use frameworks such as Ruby on

Rails to get the job done fast.

 

• Learn how Ajax works, how it evolved, and what it’s good for
• Understand the flow of processing in Ajax applications
• Build Ajax applications with XML and the XMLHttpRequest object
• Integrate back-end code, from PHP to C#
• Use XSLT and XPath, including XPath Axis
• Develop client-side Ajax libraries to support code reuse
• Streamline development with Ruby on Rails and the Ruby programming language
• Use the cross-browser HTML DOM to update parts of a page
• Discover the best Ajax Web resources, including Ajax-capable JavaScript libraries

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XML: A Beginner’s Guide: Go Beyond the Basics with Ajax, XHTML, XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0 and XQuery

• ISBN13: 9780071606264
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Essential Skills–Made Easy!

Get started programming in XML right away with help from this hands-on tutorial. XML: A Beginner’s Guide explains how to store data in and retrieve data from XML documents, format data with Cascading Style Sheets, display data in Web browsers, and use Java and JavaScript. The book covers the latest innovations in XML, including Ajax, XHTML, XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, and the new XQuery specification. Now it’s easier than ever to learn how to create your own XML solutions!

Designed for Easy Learning:

• Key Skills & Concepts–Lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
• Try This–Hands-on exercises that show how to apply your skills
• Numerous screenshots–Examples that illustrate real-world results
• Annotated Syntax–Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

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Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax: From Novice to Professional

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Dont waste time on 1,000-page tomes full of syntax; this book is all you need to get ahead in XML development. Renowned web developer Sas Jacobs presents an essential guide to XML. Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax is practical and comprehensive. It includes everything you need to know to get up to speed with XML development quickly and painlessly.

Jacobs begins by presenting an overview of XMLits syntax, rules, vocabularies, and the hows and whys of validity. She also covers the current state of XML support in todays web browsers. Next, Jacobs covers all of the basic essential uses of XML. Youll learn how to display XML data using CSS, and transform XML data using XSLT. Youll even learn about dynamic XML scripting using the XML DOM.

The last part of the book covers advanced server-side XML uses in real-world applications, including displaying XML data in Flash, and XML-driven PHP and ASP.NET applications. And last but not least, Jacobs provides a perfect introduction to Ajax development.

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LOMBOZ 3.3 Released, Eteration and OW2 Announce the Availability of OW2 Lomboz 3.3 Providing New Features for SOA, Enterprise Portals and Web Development

Eteration and OW2 announce the availability of OW2 Lomboz™ 3.3, this all-inclusive package with features addressing SOA, BPEL, and Enterprise Portals also includes the latest version of eXo Platform and Liferay Portals.

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Lomboz™ 3.3 includes all new editors for BPEL, BPEL runtime support with Apache ODE, as well as editors for Apache Struts, Spring Beans and Hibernate.

With this release, Lomboz provides an IDE that has tools for Struts, JSF, Portals, JPA, Databases, Hibernate, Spring Framework, BPEL and of course Java EE development with EJBs, Servlets and JSPs. Lomboz™ 3.3 also contains tools for the popular Apache Struts Web framework that makes working with struts XML configurations easy.

Lomboz 3.3 will be available in the form of Cloudsmith™ “virtual distros,” which streamlines the process of downloading and assembling all prerequisites and third-party packages. Lomboz 3.3 will also be available as conventionally packaged downloads. By choosing the virtual distro option, the entire Lomboz 3.3 environment will be automatically retrieved and assembled on your local machine.

Over the last three years, OW2 Lomboz™ has had over 3 million downloads and is well established in its fifth consecutive year at the top of OW2’s downloads.

“Eteration continues to show its commitment to OW2 Lomboz™, Eclipse Foundation and Open Source Technology,” said Eteration CEO Naci Dai. “We are building new strategic alliances within Open Source; now including Apache ODE and Eclipse BPEL. The addition of these new features provides the first out-of-the box open SOA tool with support for designing and running BPEL 2.0 processes. In addition, Web development with Lomboz has never been better with the latest tools for open application frameworks and standards such as JSF, AJAX, JPA, Spring, Hibernate and Struts, JSR 168 portlet development and extended support for eXo Platform and Liferay Portals.”

“The momentum achieved by Lomboz is extremely gratifying for the OW2 community. Lomboz success illustrates the innovative thrust of the OW2 community, it also demonstrates the power of the open source model in software areas where standardization is a key driver of user adoption.” said Cedric Thomas, CEO of OW2.

Professional support is available from Eteration (http://www.eteration.com) for individuals and enterprises.

The new version is currently available as downloads and from the Lomboz Update Manager.

About OW2 Lomboz™:
OW2 Lomboz™ is a popular integrated development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse Callisto (v.3.2) and targeting Web, Web Services, Java EE™, EJB™, portal and SOA development. Since version 3.0, Lomboz is based on Eclipse Web Tools Platform and provides advanced packaged features that facilitate development and testing of Enterprise Java Applications. Now all Lomboz™ releases are also made available from our Update Site. You can start using Lomboz™ Update Manager in addition to All-in-one-zip files; SDK’s and minimal runtimes are also available from the download site.
More information about Lomboz: http://lomboz.objectweb.org

About Eteration:
Eteration provides enterprise software solutions and infrastructures built on Open Source and standards. A leader in Java Enterprise Technology (Java EE), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Technologies and Object-Oriented Modeling and Analysis; the company prides itself on being a service-oriented company that provides a single source for education, outsourcing, and software solutions. Eteration is a corporate member of OW2, a member of Eclipse Web Tools Platform’s project management committee, leads the Java Standard Tools subproject and is also a provider of tools, developer resources and server infrastructures to Eclipse WTP project.
Eteration continually invests in the research and development of Lomboz™. As recipient of the TUBITAK research grant, the development of OW2 Lomboz™ is funded by the ITEA-OSIRIS project and TUBITAK.

More information about Eteration: http://www.eteration.com

About OW2:
Founded in January 2007 as a result of the merger of ObjectWeb and OrientWare communities, OW2 is an independent industry consortium dedicated to developing open source code middleware and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. Building on the legacy of ObjectWeb and OrientWare, OW2 federates more than one hundred organizations and 6000 developers in Europe, Asia and the Americas. OW2 hosts over one hundred technology Projects, including Lomboz, Sync4j, eXo Platorm, XWiki, SpagoBI and JOnAS. Several of these projects are combined into market-driven Initiatives, such as the ESB/SOA Initiative and the Business Intelligence Initiative, which facilitate their implementation by systems integrators, OEMs and end-users. A typical global open-source organization, OW2 aims to bring together grassroots communities across all continents through Local Chapters.

More information about OW2: http://www.ow2.org