PREFACE

Part One INTRODUCTION

1 INTRODUCING AJAX

Ajax and the Usable Web

The Rise of Ajax

Ajaxifying the Web: The Story of Portals

Webifying the Desktop: The Story of Office Applications

Characteristics of Ajax Applications

The Ajax Technologies

Anatomy of a Server Call

Ajax Trends

Conclusions

2 A PATTERN-LED TUTORIAL

Ajax Technologies in a Blink

Ajaxifying a Web App: One Pattern at a Time

Projects and Katas

Conclusions

3 AJAX DESIGN: PRINCIPLES AND PATTERNS

Desirable Attributes of Ajax Applications

Oesigning for Ajax

Ajax Patterns Oueruiew

Anatomy of a Pattern

Ajax Patterns Demos

Cnnclusions

Part Two FOUNDATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PATTERNS

4 AJAX APP

Ajax App

5 DISPLAY MANIPULATION

Display Morphing

Page Rearrangement

6 WEB REMOTING

Web Service

XMLHttpRequest Call

IFrame Call

HTTP Streaming

On-Demand JavaScript

7 DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR

User A ction

Scheduling

8 EXTENDED TECHNOLOGIES

Richer Plugin

Part Three PROGRAMMING PATTERNS

9 WEB SERVICES

RESTful Service

RPC Service

Ajax Stub

HTML Message

Plain-Text Message

XML Message

JSON Message

10 BROWSER-SERVER DIALOGUE

Call Tracking

Periodic Refresh

Submission Throttling

Explicit Submission

Distributed Events

Cross-Domain Proxy

11 DOM POPULATION

XML Data Island

Browser-Side XSLT

Browser-Side Templating

12 CODE GENERATION AND REUSE

Server-Side Code Generation

Cross-Browser Component

13 PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION

Browser-Side Cache

Predictive Fetch

Guesstimate

Multi-Stage Download

Fat Client

Part Four FUNCTIONALITY AND USABILITY PATTERNS

14 WIDGETS

Slider

Progress Indicator

Drilldown

Data Grid

Rich Text Editor

Suggestion

Live Search

Live Command-Line

Live Form

15 PAGE ARCHITECTURE

Drab-And-Drop

Sprite

Popup

Malleable Content

Microlink

Portlet

Status Area

Update Control

Virtual Workspace

16 VISUAL EFFECTS

One-Second Spotlight

One-Second Mutation

One-Second Motion

Highlight

17 FUNCTIONALITY

Lazy Registration

Direct Login

Host-Proof Hosting

Timeout

Heartbeat

Unique URLs

Part Five DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS

18 DIAGNOSIS

Logging

Debugging

DOM Inspection

Traffic Sniffing

19 TESTING

Simulation Service

Browser-Side Test

Seruice Test

System Test

Part Six APPENDIXES

A AJAX FRAMEWORKS AND LIBRARIES

B SETTING UP THE CODE EXAMPLES

C PATTERNS AND PATTERN LANGUAGES

D REFERENCES

INDEX