Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer, 310 Pages

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Pragmatic Ajax is about a new way of envision¬ing and implementing browser-based applica¬tions. Using open standards (HTML/XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript), you can create exciting, responsive applications that are every bit as feature-filled as rich desktop applications. What's more, you can do it without the head¬aches of choosing the right cross-platform programming environment and managing the application deployment issues.This book isn’t wedded to any particular language, toolkit, browser, or architecture.Instead, it explores both the fundamental technologies and the emerging Ajax frame¬works. It takes a honest, unbiased look at the good and the bad when implementing Ajax for Java, .Net, Ruby on Rails, and PHP, using libraries such as Scriptaculous, Prototype, Dojo, SAJAX/NAJAX, and ASP.NET.Programmers, designers, and managers will find information about this new style of sys¬tem design and how it integrates with current application development strategies and frame¬works.Understand the breadth of the Ajax/Web 2.0 landscape, not just one frameworkGo in-depth and see how Ajax works in specific environmentsLearn how to integrate JavaScript with your server-side frameworkSee how to (and how not to) apply Ajax techniques to existing applications—easilyLook at new features and frameworks cur¬rently in active developmentYour customers expect Ajaxified web applica¬tions. This book tells you how to do it right.

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Justin Gehtland is a partner and co-founder of Relevance, a training and consulting company locatedin the Research Triangle, North Carolina. He has been an application developer since 1990, and a web application developer since 1995. His technology background includes all the usual suspects. He is currently focused on development using Ruby, .NET and Java.Ben Galbraith is a frequent technical speaker, occasional consultant, and author of several technology books. He is a co-founder of Ajaxian.com, was recently Chief Technical Officer for Amirsys, and is presently a consultant specializing in enterprise architecture and Swing/Ajax development. Ben wrote his first computer program when he was six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce just after turning twelve. For the past few years, he’s been professionally coding in Java. Ben presides over the Utah Java User’s Group, is active in the Java Community Process, and tinkers on various open-source projects. He’s delivered over one hundred technical presentations in 2005 at venues including JavaOne, TheServerSide.com Java Symposium, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposiums.Dion Almaer is the other founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading source of the Ajax community. Dion has been writing rich web applications from the beginning, and is a columnist on Enterprise Java topics at openxource.com, onjava.com, TheServerSide.com, and of course his blog at almaer.com/blog. He enjoys writing, and speaking at events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, TheServerSide Symposium, and the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium tour. He also participates on the Java Community Process expert groups, and the open source community as a whole. Dennis Poppel