Now's the time - says Dino Esposito, an expert on Web development technologies - to think about AJAX and the future of Web design in a whole new way. While deve... » 

Now's the time - says Dino Esposito, an expert on Web development technologies - to think about AJAX and the future of Web design in a whole new way. While developers can use a variety of tools to code and build AJAX applications, architects must manage a variety of tradeoffs and compromises in their planning and design.

In this book, Esposito challenges readers to think beyond the easy way to AJAX, which involves adding AJAX capabilities to a non-AJAX system designed in the old model of Web development. Instead, he proposes an alternate, if more difficult, paradigm involving new patterns and new complexities - and culminating in a new, pure-AJAX architecture. You'll learn why far better solutions result from the second, more radical approach - and you'll get practical guidance on how to implement this new architecture for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). «