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Ajax on Java View Larger Image | Steve Olson
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published February 2007, 210 pages, ISBN 0596101872 | List Price: $29.99
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This practical guide shows you how to make your Java web applications more
responsive and dynamic by incorporating new Ajaxian features, including suggestion
lists, drag-and-drop, and more. Java developers can choose between many different
ways of incorporating Ajax, from building JavaScript into your applications
"by hand" to using the new Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
Ajax on Java starts with an introduction to Ajax, showing you how
to write some basic applications that use client-side JavaScript to request
information from a Java servlet and display it without doing a full page reload.
It also presents several strategies for communicating between the client and
the server, including sending raw data, and using XML or JSON (JavaScript Object
Notation) for sending more complex collections of data.
The book then branches out into different approaches for incorporating Ajax,
which include:
- The Prototype and script.aculo.us Javascript libraries, the Dojo and Rico
libraries, and DWR
- Integrating Ajax into Java ServerPages (JSP) applications
- Using Ajax with Struts
- Integrating Ajax into Java ServerFaces (JSF) applications
- Using Google's GWT, which offers a pure Java approach to developing web
applications: your client-side components are written in Java, and compiled
into HTML and JavaScript
Ajax gives web developers the ability to build applications that are more interactive,
more dynamic, more exciting and enjoyable for your users. If you're a Java developer
and haven't tried Ajax, but would like to get started, this book is essential.
Your users will be grateful.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Setup
Requirements
Installing Tomcat
Installing Ant
2. JavaScript for Ajax
Creating the Application
Running the Example
3. A Simple Ajax Servlet
Building and Deploying the Ajax Application
Running the Example
4. XML and JSON for Ajax
The Character Decoder
Setting Up a Simple XML Document
Back on the Client: Mining the XML
Building the Application
Running the Application on Tomcat
Passing Data with JSON
Summary
5. Getting Useful Data
Form Entry with Ajax
Building a Suggestion Field
6. Ajax Libraries and Toolkits
Using the Dojo Toolkit
Using the Rico Toolkit
Using DWR with Ajax
Drag 'n' Drop with Scriptaculous and Prototype
7. Ajax Tags
Creating a Tag Library
Third-Party Tag Libraries
8. Ajax on Struts
Struts-Layout
Adding Ajax to Struts with DWR
Ajax with Struts: What Have We Learned Here?
9. JavaServer Faces and Ajax
The JSF Lifecycle
Writing a Custom JSF Component
Developing a Custom JSF Tag
Handling JSF Input by Extending HtmlInputText
Writing the JSF Support for Ajax
Summary
10. Google Web Toolkit
Getting Started with GWT
Debugging the Application
Fleshing Out the Application: The Client
Supplying Services to the Client
Testing ZipCodes with the Service
GWT Widgets
Index
About the Author
Steven Douglas Olson has been a software developer for twenty years, starting
with Fortran, Pascal, Basic, and later, C at a company called Signetics. While
at Novell, he began dabbling in Java, and in 1995, he was among the first to
join Novell's Java development group. He's since consulted or worked directly
for eight other companies, writing primarily in Java. He currently works as
a consultant in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Mar 18, 2007 Stephen Fleming from Boston. MA
More like an overview
This was one of the books I got for working with Ajax and Java. it covers a lot of different framewroks very quickly. But was quite disappointed as it doesnt cover anything that I couldnt have uncovered very quickly by googling for it. Also had a very sketchy coverage of GWt which was surprising.
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