Ajax Design Patterns

Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, exploded onto the

scene in the spring of 2005 and remains the hottest story among web

developers. With its rich combination of technologies, Ajax provides a

strong foundation for creating interactive web applications with XML or

JSON-based web services by using JavaScript in the browser to process

the web server response.

Ajax Design Patterns shows you best

practices that can dramatically improve your web development projects.

It investigates how others have successfully dealt with conflicting

design principles in the past and then relays that information

directly to you.

The patterns outlined in the book fall into four

categories:

• Foundational technology: Examines the raw technologies

  required for Ajax development

• Programming: Exposes techniques that developers have

  discovered to ensure their Ajax applications are maintainable

• Functionality and usability: Describes the types of user

  interfaces you'll come across in Ajax applications, as well as the new

  types of functionality that Ajax makes possible

• Development: Explains the process being used to monitor,

  debug, and test Ajax applications

Ajax Design Patterns will also get you up

to speed with core Ajax technologies, such as XMLHttpRequest, the DOM, and JSON.

Technical discussions are followed by code examples so you can see for

yourself just what is-and isn't-possible with Ajax. This handy

reference will help you to produce high-quality Ajax architectures,

streamline web application performance, and improve the user

experience.

Michael Mahemoff holds a PhD in Computer

Science and Software Engineering from the University of Melbourne, where his thesis

was "Design Reuse in Software Engineering and Human-Computer

Interaction." He lives in London and consults on software development

issues in banking, health care, and logistics.

"Michael Mahemoff's Ajax Design Patterns

is a truly comprehensive compendium of web

application design expertise, centred around but not limited to Ajax

techniques. Polished nuggets of design wisdom are supported

by tutorials and real-world code examples resulting in a book that

serves not only as an intermediate to expert handbook but also as an

extensive reference for building rich interactive web applications."

--Brent Ashley, remote scripting pioneer