Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Ajax is one of the hottest new methodologies on the web, but it requires a lot of coding, and there are some inherent problems with Ajax applications. That's where this book comes in -- it provides more than 50 adaptable recipes for all of the common tasks developers will want to implement on web sites using Ajax, DOM Scripting, and REST techniques, saving them hours of development time. The code examples can be adapted for use in their own applications.

The recipes provided here go beyond simple, isolated functions, providing complete solutions for form validation, drag and drop functionality, data sorting, data presentation techniques, application architecture, debugging, performance enhancements, server-side techniques for web services, and much more.

The book makes use of REST, and other design patterns, and many popular JavaScript libraries. The authors focus heavily on efficiency, optimization, reusability, and fixing some of the problems inherent with Ajax-style coding.