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February 2007

Zend Core enabled web apps using Ajax with Dojo and DB2

Quickly create a responsive Web application using DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, XQuery, PHP, and the Dojo JavaScript Framework. This tutorial shows you the advantages of the Ajax approach and see a step-by-step implementation. You will be using Zend Core, which conveniently bundles the DB2 9 Express-C data server, Apache2 Web server, PHP scripting language, DB2 extensions for PHP, and a powerful administration console. See how to take advantage of the speedy pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 9.

Flying Flapjax Better-than-JavaScript for the Web

Flapjax, an improved way to build Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) applications, offers more than just a library of conveniences. This tutorial emphasizes simple, self-contained steps to successfully apply Flapjax to real-world problems. Learn how to write and run simple Flapjax programs in several modes, including a compiled form suitable for deployment.

January 2007

Hot Web 2.0 user interface technologies

We're entering an unprecedented period of user interface innovation, as Web developers are finally able to build Web applications as rich as local PC-based applications. This article covers the Web 2.0 user interface technology innovations of Flex, OpenLaszlo, Ajax and other Rich client and Rich Web application development.

The advantages of using public APIs like Google's with Ajax

Add more functionality to your Web applications than just what your own Ajax scripts and server-side programs provide. It shouldn't be hard to build on what you learn here and start utilizing the Google API with your Ajax apps. More importantly, though, you will have a pretty good idea of how to use public APIs in general including the one from Amazon, del.icio.us, or anywhere else.

Quickly add Ajax-style navigation with Rico LiveGrid widget

The Rico library is a JavaScript file that you can include in any Web page to give that page access to a rich set of features and widgets. This article will briefly introduce you to the Rico open-source, client-side JavaScript framework, and then focus on one of its widgets, LiveGrid. It will demonstrate how you can implement LiveGrid to add Ajax-style navigation to your Web applications.

5 cool web widgets that use Ajax and XML

The Web 2.0 revolution emphasizes unique and novel ways to interact with customers on your Web site. A lot of these new, innovative techniques revolve around using graphics and widgets that communicate with the server to retrieve data for display. This article introduce you to five web widgets that communicate with the server through Ajax and XML.

Simplify JavaScript complex behavior with Finite State

Software engineers have long used finite state machines as an organizing principle for developing event-driven programs. Browser-based applications, popularized by Ajax, are becoming more complex. Designers and implementers can benefit from the discipline and structure that finite state machines offer. In this article, you, learn how to use a finite state machine to design complex behavior for a simple Web widget -- an animated tooltip that fades into and out of view.

Ajax tradeoffs and the right XML encoding for you

When using XML in your Ajax apps you have to ask yourself what flavor of XML fits your needs best. Several tradeoffs are involved. Some of the obvious choices to pick from are (X)HTML, SVG or X3D if your data is graphical, Atom for snippets of data over time, OPML for simple outlines, and RDF for semantic graphs. This article gives you everything you need to decide which is the right way to encode your data for your Ajax application.

December 2006

Do Ruby on Rails with Ajax nails

JavaScript is often ridiculed as the black sheep of programming languages. Nearly every Web developer has cursed JavaScript at one time or another. Until recently, many developers had all but written off JavaScript as a necessary evil at best or a toy at worst. But JavaScript is becoming increasingly important. See why it remains the most broadly available scripting language for Web development and a better choice for developing modern applications.

Do Ruby on Rails with Ajax nails

Its well known that Ruby on Rails provides an excellent platform for building Web applications, but did you know how well it works with Ajax? This article takes you through the steps of building a Rails web application and then dives right into using Ajax features to give your application the Web 2.0 rich user interface experience.

WebSphere Guru shares how to building AJAX apps

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WebSphere Master Roland Barcia answers questions on building Web 2.0 applications with AJAX technologies on WebSphere. Topics range from popular data transport forms (such as REST, JSON-RPC, and SOAP), tooling (such as the Eclipse AJAX Toolkit and Rational tools), or AJAX toolkits (such as the Dojo Toolkit and DWR). He also discusses how AJAX technologies integrate with IBM's SOA platforms.

November 2006

Try Lotus Domino Ajax instant messaging

Learn how the power of IBM Lotus Domino and Ajax can add awareness to your Domino Web applications. One reason we love this technique is that it doesn’t load Microsoft ActiveX controls, instantiate a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) instance, or require a flash animation player. It is a lightweight, low-tech solution for most clients.

Should you use Ajax in your IT applications?

The newness of the Ajax/REST architectural style presents challenges to IT organizations. A technology like Ajax is more or less useful only insofar as an organization can apply it to solve a particular problem or to fulfill a particular need. This article, will help you decide if you should use Ajax in real IT applications, and it aims to improve your chances of success with Ajax development.

Master Ajax using XML in requests and responses

The more you learn about the technologies around Ajax, the more careful you have to be about your decisions. When you realize that there's no standard way for a server to respond to clients with name/value pairs, the reasoning behind using XML becomes pretty clear. This article shows you the pluses when your server sends XML back to a client.

October 2006

Build Ajax fuctions without Javascript coding

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Get familiar with the Sun Ajax4jsf open source framework, which adds Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) capabilities to JSF applications without having to write any JavaScript code. This tutorial will show you how to build an Apache Geronimo applications using JavaServer Faces and Ajax functionality with Ajax4jsf.

June 2006

Developing PHP the Ajax way

This article will show you how to speed up PHP application development using the Simple Ajax Toolkit (Sajax).