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Monday, September 18, 2006
- Building Web Applications With AJAX
speaker: Stuart Jones
location: Microsoft, Waltham MA
Monday September 18th, 7pm
This presentation looks at the basics of how AJAX works and offers a survey of the different toolkits that provide an AJAX platform for web applications.
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Companies that carved out a competitive edge in the 1990s through innovative software applications face a different challenge in the new millennium: their clients want instant access to these applications via the web. When evaluating a number of equally capable software solutions, clients are increasingly choosing web-based solutions that require no installation on client machines and provide instant access from virtually any location. Re-architecting an existing software solution for the web is a difficult task given the static nature of HTML vs. the dynamic nature of most user interfaces. The AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technique can help overcome the limitations of pure HTML to create feature-rich user interfaces matching those of most client/server-based applications. This presentation looks at the basics of how AJAX works and offers a survey of the different toolkits that provide an AJAX platform for web applications. We will compare and contrast the Microsoft XMLHTTP object, a few of the AJAX frameworks currently available and the newer Atlas framework.The talk also presents some recent web-enabled applications that relied on AJAX for their novel approaches to web user experiences. The emphasis will be on the practical aspects of AJAX so that attendees will be able to use this exciting technique in their own web applications to create powerful web-based user interfaces.
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Stuart's Web Site: http://www.berwickheights.com
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