Your first steps with Ajax [40 mn of reading - published 2/6/2006 10:19:46 AM - Target : Confirmé]

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Matthieu CARTON Student-Engineer Supinfo Paris SUPINFO graduate year  2006    Write to the person    All projects of the same author    Mini-CV of the author

Resume

This article is to consider like a guide which permits you to do your first steps with Ajax and is dedicated to people who have some notions of web development (like in JavaScript) for better understanding our examples.

The main goal is to conclude on the real interest from Ajax beyond the great buzz marketing whose it was the object on the web.

Simultaneously to this article, a site was conceived in order to show you in detail the examples treated here and some of their implementations.

Go here : http://cartonm.e-supinfo.net/memoire/atlas

Sommaire

• Introduction
• 1. General operation
• 1.1. Web 2.0
• 1.2. Definition
• 1.3. Traditional web application and Ajax application
• 1.4. Advantages and disadvantages of an Ajax application
• 2. Example : request execution
• 2.1. Creation of a HTTP request
• 2.2. Treatement of the server response
• 2.3. Request launching
• 2.4. Server response management
• 2.5. Data access
• 2.6. Script launching
• 2.7. Adaptation for a RSS reader
• 3. Example : sending data
• 3.1. Sending simple data
• 3.2. Sending data from a database
• 4. Ajax libraries
• 4.1. Rico
• 4.2. Script Aculo
• 4.3. Direct Web Remoting
• 5. Frameworks
• 5.1. Framework .Net : Atlas
• 5.2. Javascript Frameworks
• 5.3. Java Framework
• 5.4. PHP Framework : PEAR
• 5.5. An other framework : Ruby on Rails
• 6. Development platforms
• 6.1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• 6.2. Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
• 6.3. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
• 6.4. Borland Delphi
• 7. Zoom on Atlas
• 7.1. How does it work ?
• 7.2. Pre-required
• 7.3. Namespaces
• 7.4. Interfaces
• 7.5. Inheritage
• 7.6. Data access
• 7.7. Web services
• 7.8. Controls
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Source