June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
655 pages
18h 26m
English
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Chapter 4. Ajax App
THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS JUST A SINGLE PATTERN, THE ROOT FOR THE ENTIRE PATTERN LANGUAGE: Ajax App.
Ajax App
⊙⊙⊙ Ajax, Balanced, Client-SOA, DHTML, Fast, Fat, Interactive, Platform, RichInternetApplication, Rich, Thick, Web2.0, and WebApp
Figure 4-1. Ajax App
Goal Story
Pam’s begun entering staff appraisals into a new Ajax App. She’s pleased to see the data entry is much faster: fields are validated as soon as they’re filled out, searches are integrated into the form rather than in annoying popups, and the remaining form fields keep mutating to reflect what she’s entered so far.
Problem
How can you create a rich application?
Forces
See Chapter 1 for more details on the forces driving Ajax, which are summarized here.
Users like working and playing in the browser and are now more willing to keep their data online, but are nonetheless frustrated with conventional “click ‘n’ wait” interfaces.
Companies like web apps running on their Intranets because it makes deployment much easier, but they continue to be burned by unusable web apps that don’t deliver the same value as a comparable desktop app.
Developers are now well-versed in the basic patterns of web architecture and ready to take on new challenges.
Technology has opened up new opportunities for the Web: broadband and beyond is becoming ubiquitous in many countries; servers can process huge quantities of requests per second; ...
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