Professional Rich Internet Applications: Ajax And Beyond

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Professional Rich Internet Application Development: AJAX and Beyond takes a look at full-fledged applications that while existing solely on the internet provide the same rich user experience and functionality as those that have traditionally lived on out desktop computer. Applications like Yahoo! Mail, Microsoft Live, Google Maps, Writely, and Bootcamp have proven that this is the future of computing. This book take the reader through all aspects of the applications looking at the overall architecture and then breaking it down into client-side and server-side technologies, while maintaining a focus on the desired functionality of the application. Table of contents : Acknowledgments Introduction Part I An Introduction To Rias · What Characterizes Rich Internet Applications? · RIA Foundations · The Programmable Web The Mashup Ecosystem · Getting Started Creating Your First RIA Part II Rias Explored · Debugging the Client Side · The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern · JavaScript Library Survey · Compiling to JavaScript · An Introduction to ideaStax Part III 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 Part IV Advanced Selected Topics · Providing an API · RIA Widgets · Rich Immersive Environments Part V Appendix Appendix: Dojo Validation Functions And Flags Index Market Description : · Primary audience: Professional developers looking to add more robust functionality to existing web sites or to develop custom applications for their company· Secondary audience: Hobbyists wanting to understand how all of the pieces of a robust distributed application work and how to build such programs About Author : Dana Moore is a Division Scientist with BBN Technologies in Arlington, VA. He is the co-author of"Peer-to-Peer: Building Manageable, Scalable Networks," and "Jabber Developer's Handbook." Dana is a popular conference speaker on software agent systems and various management topics, a university lecturer, and has contributed articles for numerous computing publications. Edward Benson is a Software Engineer at BBN Technologies where he works on multi-agent applications using the Cougaar Framework. He has an upcoming publication in the proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium. Edward has worked on a number of community-oriented web applications in PHP and Ruby. Raymond Budd is a member of the technical staff at BBN Technologies. Since joining BBN, he has worked on a variety of agent-based, service-based, and web applications. He has had publications included in several conference proceedings, as well as a recent publication in Applied Intelligence.