Ajax on Java

By Steven Douglas Olson
First Edition  February 2007 
Pages: 228
ISBN 10: 0-596-10187-2 | ISBN 13: 9780596101879
(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)

Book description

This practical guide shows you how to make your Java web applications more responsive and dynamic by incorporating new Ajaxian features: suggestion lists, drag-and-drop, and more. Java developers can choose between many different ways of incorporating Ajax, from building JavaScript into your applications "by hand" to using the new Google Web Toolkit (GWT). The book includes strategies for integrating Ajax into JSP and JSF applications, and using Ajax with Struts.

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Great Introduction to Ajax!,  May 18 2007
Submitted by Michael Davis   [Respond | View]

I like this book because of the code. I learn best by doing and my mantra is 'see one, do one, teach one.' This book has taken that approach of practical application. Granted, some of the code had to be massaged to work in my admittedly eccentric environment, but overall I was very pleased with the results. This book is not for the weekend warrior or novice. When you pick up this deceptively thin volume, get ready to work. As you work through all of the examples, you can really begin to get a feel for what Ajax can do for you in a Java environment. If you want no code and an easy read, go elsewhere! If you want lots of examples and plenty to keep you busy while you learn, forge on! Kudos to the author for his straightforward approach.


Clear and Concise Presentation of Subject,  May 10 2007
Submitted by Anonymous Reader   [Respond | View]

Thanks to the authors for such a way of condensing so much and presenting the topics with the clarity that this book offers. I am new to Ajax but neither new to Java nor Struts. The book provided me with all the basic concepts I needed to understand Ajax, and went beyond that. I have other books on Ajax, none of them so concise and powerful like this. Thanks again.


Save Your Money,  April 29 2007
Submitted by John Baughn   [Respond | View]

Sad to say, this book is little more than a code dump, and the code does not run without debugging.

There are no explanations of technologies and concepts that surround Ajax, therefore, given the state of the code, there is not a lot of reason to work through the book. In fact, this is the first computer book that I returned to the seller, simply because I found so little reason to keep it on my bookshelf.

The writing in the introductory chapter gives promise, but as the book progresses the code quickly becomes dense and the organization and writing becomes unacceptably thin. I expected more from O'Reilly.

Before I gave up on this book, I was half way through it, and only one code set had ran correctly from build on. For example, the author's code has at least four variations of the basic application URL sprinkled among the Javascript and build files of the first four examples. Finding and correcting the URL was annoying but not difficult, but even after that, the examples did not run without further debugging.

I finally threw up my hands and surrendered... defeated by the author's rush to publication.

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Media reviews

"This book is a great intro to AJAX. It starts by telling you where to find the few simple pieces you need (Browser, JDK, Tomcat, Ant), and gives a complete working example of a simple AJAX app. After reading the first 10 pages of the book, you’ll have an AJAX app up and running."
-- Dave Fecak, Philadelphia Area Java Users' Group

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"After reading the first 10 pages of the book, you’ll have an AJAX app up and running."
--Dave Fecak, Philadelphia Area Java Users' Group