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Professional Rich Internet Applications: AJAX and Beyond
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Dana Moore, Raymond Budd, Edward Benson
Wrox Press, Paperback, Published March 2007, 600 pages, ISBN 0470082801
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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 more.


Table of Contents

Introduction.

1.What Characterizes Rich Internet Applications?

2. RIA Foundations.

3. The Programmable Web: The Mashup EcoSystem.

4. Getting Started: Creating Your First RIA.

5. Debugging the Client Side.

6. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern.

7. JavaScript Library Survey.

8. Compiled JavaScripts.

9. An Introduction to ideaStax.

10. Form Validation.

11. Form Usability.

12. Drag and Drop.

13. User Interaction, Effects and Animation.

14. Tagging and Rating (I): Creating an Infrastructure.

15. Tagging and Rating (II): Using Social Capability.Advanced Selected Topics.

16. Providing an API.

17. RIAs on the Desktop.

18. Rich Immersive Environments.

Appendix A.

Index.


ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

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 upcomming publication in the proceedings of the IEEE International Paralell & 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.




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