Ajax In Action

Ajax in Action helps you implement that thinking--it explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server (hint: use a "nested MVC" design) while retaining the integrity of the system. You will learn how to ensure your app is flexible and maintainable, and how good, structured design can help avoid problems like browser incompatibilities. Along the way it helps you unlearn many old coding habits. Above all, it opens your mind to the many advantages gained by placing much of the processing in the browser. If you are a web developer who has prior experience with web technologies, this book is for you.

Table of contents :
Part 1 - Rethinking the Web Application
Chapter 1: A New Design for the Web
Chapter 2: First Steps with Ajax
Chapter 3: Introducing Order to Ajax

Part 2 - Core Techniques
Chapter 4 - The Page as an Application
Chapter 5 - The Role of the Server

Part 3 - Professional Ajax
Chapter 6 - The User Experience
Chapter 7 - Security and Ajax
Chapter 8 - Performance

Part 4 - Ajax by Example
Chapter 9 - Dynamic Double Combo
Chapter 10 - Type-Ahead Suggest
Chapter 11 - The Enhanced Ajax Web Portal

About Author :
Dave Crane has pushed the boundaries of DHTML, and latterly Ajax, on digital TV set-top boxes, in home automation and banking and financial systems. He lives in Gloucestershire, UK. Eric Pascarello is an ASP.NET developer and a moderator of the HTML and JavaScript forum at JavaRanch. He lives in Laurel, MD. Darren James is the architect of the opensource Rico project. He lives in Sunnyvale, CA.