Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

By Christian Gross

Book Overview

Ajax is one of the hottest new methodologies on the web, but it requires a lot of coding, and there are some inherent problems with Ajax applications. That's where this book comes in -- it provides more than 50 adaptable recipes for all of the common tasks developers will want to implement on web sites using Ajax, DOM Scripting, and REST techniques, saving them hours of development time. The code examples can be adapted for use in their own applications.

The recipes provided here go beyond simple, isolated functions, providing complete solutions for form validation, drag and drop functionality, data sorting, data presentation techniques, application architecture, debugging, performance enhancements, server-side techniques for web services, and much more.

The book makes use of REST, and other design patterns, and many popular JavaScript libraries. The authors focus heavily on efficiency, optimization, reusability, and fixing some of the problems inherent with Ajax-style coding.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590597346
• ISBN13: 9781590597347
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Not Perfect, But Certainly Worth the Price of Admission.

I cam really close to not buying this book based on the single review that was available. But, poking around the web, reading other reviews, and looking through the table of contents, it appeared to be exactly what I needed to help me complete my current project. When I got the book, I was pleasantly surprised to see that it will indeed fit the bill. I do agree with the other review that the diagrams are pretty horrible, but they do get the point across. This book goes a lot more in depth than most "recipe" books, with deeper explanations of solutions, and why the solution was chosen. So there's more learning than simple cut-n-paste solutions. Please also note that the user level for this book is "intermediate-advanced". If you are just learning about RESTful Web Services, check out RESTful Web Services. Ajax and REST Recipes is more for folks that already have a pretty good handle on REST and want to learn how to put that knowledge to work.