ajax and java.pdf

Ajax and Java Frameworks

Ryan Asleson and Nathaniel T. Schutta

Who Are We?

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Ryan Asleson

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Nathaniel T. Schutta

www.ntschutta.com/jat/

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First Ajax book!

The Plan

• What the heck is Ajax?

• Server agnostic frameworks

• Java and Ajax

• Give me tools!

• Patterns and best practices

What is Ajax?

A cleaner? A Greek hero?

A soccer club?

http://www.v-bal.nl/logos/ajax.jpg

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808444810&cf=pg&photoid=521827&intl=us

http://www.cleansweepsupply.com/pages/skugroup1068.html

Give me an ‘A’

• Asynchronous, JavaScript, XML, XHTML, CSS,

DOM, XMLHttpRequest object

• More of a technique than a speciﬁc “thing”

• Communicate with XHR, manipulate the Document

Object Model on the browser

• Don’t repaint the entire page!

• We gain ﬂexibility

http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

• Ajax is a catch-phrase - several technologies