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Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
Yes, the first four chapters of the book are designed to get you ready for what's coming in the rest of it.
The first two give you a thorough understanding of Ajax and the XMLHttpRequest, the third a study of advanced Javascript techniques, with an emphasis on writing object-oriented Javascript that you'll neeed to understand, and the fourth is a survey of open source Ajax tookits that are employed in the rest of the book.
Is there a way to access AJAX javascripts written in .js files from the portlets? It is difficult to manage & reuse when all the javascripts are written in the JSP file.
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Originally posted by Matt Kidd:
How much javascript knowledge is required before reading this book though?
Originally posted by Matt Kidd:
How much javascript knowledge is required before reading this book though?
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Originally posted by David C. Crane:
Hi Vins,
Don't do it, please!! In an Ajax app, there's enough Javascript in there to warrant keeping it in separate .js files, which are served as static resources by the server. If you're writing Javascript inside your JSP's, keep it to a minimum. Think of the JS files as a separate tier in your app, if you like.
Dave
Originally posted by Greg Charles:
I'm sure the technical stuff is great. Does the book also give examples of how to use Ajax effectively? I don't like to shove new technology onto a page just for the sake of being new. (Well, actually, yes I do, but I have to justify it to management somehow.)
Originally posted by Jord Sonneveld:
So the book isn't just a discussion of what you can do; it also shows you how to do it by way of little examples that showcase the techniques in question.
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Originally posted by Anupam Sinha:
With my limited knowledge and experience on AJAX, I think that AJAX's basically XMLHttpRequest and javascript. XMLHttpRequest is good enough for getting a response and after that it's all javascript. So I guess the book mainly covers javascript and probably some design patterns as well. Or is there more to AJAX minus javascript than XMLHttpRequest?
So, very basically, AJAX = XHR + DHTML + JavaScript + XML. If you take away the JavaScript, then you're left with DHTML + XHR + XML. But don't underestimate the JavaScript part. Using XHR in your apps really affects your client UI. You can do more powerful things, but of course at the cost of added complexity. We hope to show you how to handle that complexity.
And Appendix B is Why Go Commercial? Can you give a hint as to whether it talks about some open source tools or some paid ones to make life easier.
It was decided to make B an on-line only chapter. Yes, it will discuss commercial tools to make life easier; as you may guess, there isn't much discussion of open source tools in the "Why Go Commercial" chapter . That's because the rest of the book purely focuses on open source solutions.
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