AJAX Developer Training Class

1. Using AJAX

• The purpose of AJAX


• Rich Internet applications


• Sending instructions to the browser

2. Making AJAX Requests

• Request objects


• HTTP ready states


• Cached request URLs

3. Asynchronous JavaScript

• Asynchronicity


• External JavaScript files


• Iterative development


• Multiple request objects

4. Document Object Model and JavaScript

• Creating a DOM document with JavaScript


• DOM nodes


• Navigating DOM tree


• DOM applications

5. POST Requests

• Error messages


• Request and response headers


• Content types

6. XML Requests and Responses

• XML and responseText


• responseXML


• DOM and XML

7. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

• XML vs. JSON


• JSON data format


• JSON on the server

8. A New Design for the Web

• Why AJAX rich clients?


• The four defining principles of AJAX


• AJAX rich clients in the real world


• Alternatives to AJAX

9. First Steps with AJAX

• The key elements of AJAX


• Orchestrating the user experience with JavaScript


• Defining look and feel using CSS


• Organizing the view using the DOM


• Loading data asynchronously using XML technologies


• What sets AJAX apart

10. Introducing Order to AJAX

• Order out of chaos


• Some small refactoring case studies


• Model-View-Controller (MVC)


• Web server MVC


• Third-party libraries and frameworks

11. The Page as an Application

• A different kind of MVC


• The view in an AJAX application


• The controller in an AJAX application


• Models in an AJAX application


• Generating the view from the model

12. The Role of the Server

• Working with the server side


• Coding the server side


• The big picture: Common server-side designs


• The details: Exchanging data


• Writing to the server

13. The User Experience

• Getting it right: Building a quality application


• Keeping the user informed


• Designing a notification system for AJAX


• Implementing a notification framework


• Using the framework with network requests


• Indicating freshness of data

14. Security and AJAX

• JavaScript and browser security


• Communicating with remote services


• Protecting confidential data


• Policing access to AJAX data streams

15. Performance

• What is performance?


• JavaScript execution speed


• JavaScript memory footprint


• Designing for performance

16. AJAX by Example

• Dynamic double combo


• The client-side architecture


• Implementing the server: VB .NET


• Presenting the results


• Advanced issues

17. Type-Ahead Suggest

• Examining type-ahead frameworks


• The server-side framework: C#


• The client-side framework


• Adding functionality: Multiple elements

18. The Enhanced AJAX Web Portal

• The evolving portal


• The AJAX portal architecture using Java


• The AJAX login


• Implementing DHTML windows


• Adding AJAX autosave functionality

19. Live Search using XSLT

• Understanding the search techniques


• The client-side code


• The server-side code: PHP


• Combining the XSLT and XML documents

20. Building Stand-Alone Applications with AJAX

• Reading information from the outside world


• Creating the rich user interface


• Loading the RSS feeds


• Adding a rich transition effect


• Avoiding the project's restrictions

• 1839 - Intro to JavaScript: DOM scripting (DHTML) or equivalent industry
  experience


• 1806 - Cascading Style Sheets


• 1832 - XML Developer or equivalent industry experience

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