Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications
by David Johnson, Alexei White, Andre Charland
Chapter 4. AJAX Components
In this chapter, after examining several patterns, we look at how they apply to actually building a user interface. You learn how to encapsulate AJAX functionality into both imperative, as well as declarative, components. The use of declarative components is increasingly important because various new declarative technologies are created, such as Scaling Vector Graphics (SVG), XML Binding Language (XBL), and Macromedia XML (MXML). The encapsulation of user-interface functionality is a critically important aspect of enterprise AJAX development because it not only facilitates code re-use, but it also removes much of the need for addressing the individual quirks of multiple browsers—a critical step toward rapidly developing ...
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