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AJAX Introduction - Fast Track to AJAX - A 3 Day Course

Open Public Course

Closed In-House Course

Synopsis

This three-day course provides comprehensive tuition in implementing AJAX-based functionality in web application development, and goes beyond technology essentials, to take in user interface, cross-browser and concurrency issues, as well as progressive applications of the approach, and the implications these carry.

Course Objectives

This course gives a thorough grounding in implementing AJAX-based functionality, and goes beyond technology essentials, to take in user-interface design, cross-browser considerations, and concurrency issues. As well as the use of XMLHTTPRequest, it covers "on-demand" JavaScript, dynamic style-sheet loading, and the gamut of encoding formats such as XML and JSON.

Suitable for

This course is appropriate to all client and server-side developers alike.

Pre-Requisites

Advanced knowledge and experience of JavaScript and HTML is not essential, although some basic understanding of these languages is assumed.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

London — £695 (+VAT)

21–23 Jun 2010

Contents:

Essential and Advanced JavaScript

Classes, methods and polymorphism
Built-in classes, objects and methods
Exception handling and exception classes
X(HT)ML Document Object Models

XMLHTTPRequest Basics

XHR object instantiation
Cross-browser coding
Sending and receiving data
(A)Synchronous considerations

Encoding Data

Plain text
X(HT)ML and SOAP
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
Using binary formats

XMLHTTPRequest Alternatives

Dynamic style-sheet loading
On-demand JavaScript

Hyper-Text Transport Protocol

HTTP headers and methods
Server responses
URL and last-modified detection

Application Design and Implementation

Concurrency and thread safety
Guarding against race conditions
Caching considerations
Managing latency, timeouts and exceptions

Advanced Techniques

Transparent and 'eager' script loading
Emulating frames
Interactive forms
Logging client-side run-time errors
Gathering browsing-pattern statistics
Combining heterogenous feeds

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