Professional Rich Internet Applications : AJAX and Beyond

by Moore, Dana; Budd, Raymond; Benson, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780470082805
• ISBN10: 0470082801
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-19
• Publisher: Wrox
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Summary

Through the use of hands-on examples and case studies to explain complex technologies, this comprehensive book takes AJAX, Ruby on Rails, and Flash to the next level by combining them into a framework for developing rich Internet applications Walks readers through using all aspects of each application, looking at the overall architecture and then breaking down the client-side and server-side technologies, while still maintaining a focus on the desired functionality of an application Also includes coverage of such various technologies as DHTML, JavaScript, XSLT, Java, Python, PHP, and moreThis book is also available as part of the 4-book JavaScript and Ajax Wrox Box (ISBN: 0470227818). This 4-book set includes: Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN: 0764579088) Professional Ajax 2nd edition (ISBN: 0470109491) Professional Web 2.0 Programming (ISBN: 0470087889) Professional Rich Internet Applications: Ajax and Beyond (ISBN: 0470082801)

Author Biography

Dana Moore is a division scientist with BBN Technologies and is an acknowledged expert in the fields of peer-to-peer and collaborative computing, software agent frameworks, and assistive environments. Prior to joining BBN, Dana was chief scientist for Roku Technologies, and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories. Dana is a popular conference speaker, a university lecturer, and has published both articles for numerous computing publications, and books, including Peer-to-Peer: Building Secure, Scalable, and Manageable Networks and Jabber Developer Handbook. Dana holds a master of science degree in technology management from the University of Maryland, and a bachelor of science in industrial design, also from the University of Maryland.

Raymond Budd is a software engineer with BBN Technologies. He has designed, developed, and supported a variety of Web applications and other distributed systems in Java, Ruby, and Python. He has been published in several conference proceedings, such as the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and journals, including Applied Intelligence. Additional areas of interest include knowledge representations, knowledge engineering, and distributed planning and scheduling. He received a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Edward (Ted) Benson is a software engineer with BBN Technologies. His experience and interests include distributed programming frameworks, multi-agent systems, Web development, and knowledge representation. Ted has developed Web applications for several community groups and companies, and he has been published in IEEE conference proceedings on the subjects of distributed and multi-agent systems. He gradated summa cum laude from the University of Virginia with a bachelor of science degree in computer science.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

An Introduction to RIAs

What Characterizes Rich Internet Applications?

RIA Foundations

The Programmable Web: The Mashup Ecosystem

Getting Started: Creating Your First RIA

RIAs Explored

Debugging the Client Side

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern

JavaScript Library Survey

Compiling to JavaScript

An Introduction to ideaStax

RIA Development in Depth

Form Validation

Form Usability

Drag and Drop

User Interaction, Effects, and Animation

Tagging and Rating (I): Creating an Infrastructure

Tagging and Rating (II): Using Social Capability

Advanced Selected Topics

Providing an API

RIA Widgets

Rich Immersive Environments

Appendix

Appendix: Dojo Validation Functions and Flags

Index

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