Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications

Chapter 11. Case Studies

This book is about the use of AJAX in an enterprise environment. In hearing from developers who have used AJAX in mission critical projects, we get a sense for the “quick wins” and what AJAX implementations look like in large corporate environments. This way we can also get a ground-level view of how technologies were selected and how the project progressed.

We spoke to three organizations about a web development project they did that involved AJAX. These firms were Corporate Technology Partners, Agrium, and Schenker Logistics. In the spirit of full disclosure, the reader should note that all three of these are customers of the authors of this book, but that doesn’t make the lessons learned here any less relevant. Read ...