Web Development with JavaScript and Ajax Illuminated

by Richard Allen, Kai Qian, Lixin Tao, Xiang Fu

Overview

Web Development with JavaScript and AJAX teaches your students the cutting-edge techniques for web development for Web 2.0 and 3.0. Ideal for the undergraduate student delving into the world of web development, this text illustrates how to create dynamic, interactive web applications with ease. Interesting real-world case studies are integrated throughout the text, offering students a glimpse of actual web development scenarios. AJAX is quickly becoming the number one tool in the Web industry. Make sure your students are up to speed using Web Development with JavaScript and AJAX. Instructor's materials, including PowerPoint lecture slides, test items, and PowerPoint figures and tables, are available. Contact your sales representative for more information. Key topics include: Introduction to Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, HTML, XHTML, and JavaScript, AJAX Basics, Server Side Technology, AJAX with database, and much more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763754891
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	11/21/2008
Series:	Jones and Bartlett Illuminated (Paperback)
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	497
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mr. Richard Allen is currently a Lead Architect at Genuine Part s Company. His previous positions include Research Engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute and Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems. He has many years experience in Java Web and enterprise application development including Ajax applications. He is co-author of the textbook “Java Web Development Illuminated” with Jones and Bartlett. Richard has a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering.

Dr. Kai Qian is a professor of computer science & software engineering department at Southern Polytechnic State University. He received the Ph.D. of computer science and engineering from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1990. He has taught “Software Architecture and Design” courses in the undergraduate and graduate levels for years. He is the author of the textbook “Component-Oriented Programming” with Wiley & Sons, and “Java Web Application Illuminated” with Jones and Bartlett. He has published many journal and conference papers in the areas of software architecture and design, component-based software engineering, distributed computing, and computer vision.

Dr Lixin Tao, IEEE senior member, professor of computer science at Pace university in New York. He completed his Ph.D in computer science from University of Pennsylvania in 1988. His research area covers internet computing, CBSE, parallel and distributed computing. He was architect of large scale software projects for IBM.

Dr. Xiang Fu is an assistant professor at Hofstra University. He received his Ph.D in computer science from University of California at Santa Barbara in 2004. He taught software engineering courses and published extensively in software verifications and Web services areas.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 Ajax Defined
Chapter 2 Web Pages Using Web Standards
Chapter 3 XML - The X in Ajax
Chapter 4 JavaScript and the Document Object Model
Chapter 5 Web Remoting Techniques - the A in Ajax
Chapter 6 Dojo Toolkit
Chapter 7 Ajax Challenges and Best Practices
Chapter 8 Ajax Case Study
Chapter 9 The Future of Web Applications
Chapter 10 Appendix