Chapter 10. Ajax and Java Web Services
In this chapter, I examine how Java Web Services can be used to support Ajax clients. Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a programming technique that enables you to create user interfaces for a Web browser that behave more like a local, stand-alone application than a collection of HTML pages.
Ajax is a good fit with Java Web Services. Using these two technologies together enables you to publish software components as services (via JAX-WS) and create great browser-based user interfaces on top of them (via Ajax). The entire application can then be packaged as an EAR or WAR and deployed on a Java EE application server.
To demonstrate this capability, I pick up here where I left off at the end of ...
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