--- product_id: 8268883 title: "Foundations of Ajax (Books for Professionals by Professionals)" brand: "nathaniel schuttaryan asleson" price: "KD 20.80" currency: KWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 4 url: https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/8268883-foundations-of-ajax-books-for-professionals-by-professionals store_origin: KW region: Kuwait --- # Foundations of Ajax (Books for Professionals by Professionals) **Brand:** nathaniel schuttaryan asleson **Price:** KD 20.80 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Foundations of Ajax (Books for Professionals by Professionals) by nathaniel schuttaryan asleson - **How much does it cost?** KD 20.80 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.kw](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/8268883-foundations-of-ajax-books-for-professionals-by-professionals) ## Best For - nathaniel schuttaryan asleson enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted nathaniel schuttaryan asleson brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Foundations of Ajax (Books for Professionals by Professionals) ## Images ![Foundations of Ajax (Books for Professionals by Professionals) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41p1Ng6MlAL.jpg) ![Foundations of Ajax (Books for Professionals by Professionals) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51VBzLmqdZL.jpg) ![Foundations of Ajax (Books for Professionals by Professionals) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31KqqJtQAML.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good starting book for the Java Developer.... *by F***W on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2006* This is a good Ajax book for the Java Developer who is already familiar with dynamic web development with Servlets and JSP. It covers a lot of material including the basics of Ajax that all books discuss: XMLHttpRequest, JSON data format, and XML DOM manipulation (classic Ajax). But it adds some other topics that are missing from other books such as alternative Remote Scripting (ex: iframes), Unit Testing, Web Services, JavaScript packaging, and tool selection.If you like to see code samples, this book has them - they aren't that pretty to look at (the authors don't use a lot of flashy CSS or style tags), but they work. Code samples to common patterns/techniques are included: auto-complete, validation, progress bars, tooltips, etc...What this book lacks is deep discussions. For that, Ajax in Action is better. But where Ajax in Action reads like a college textbook, Foundations reads more like an article written from one developer to another. I own both -- and liked Foundations as a starting point, and I liked Ajax in Action for reference purposes.The book does tend to repeat itself at times, and the authors shamelessly promote their own framework briefly for a few pages (Taconite - which isn't a leading Ajax framework).But overall - its a great starting place for the Java Ajax developer. ### ⭐⭐⭐ friendly enough introduction, but could have been much better *by T***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 9, 2006* This is a rather unambitious book. It's fairly good at what it tries to do, but it doesn't try to do very much. While Manning's Ajax in Action tackles the subject from the standpoint of engineering desktop-replacement applications, Foundations is content to talk about Ajax as a means of adding small-scale usability enhancements to a web application you're already building. Likewise, they assume you already know all you need to know about whatever HTML and about web development platform you're using, and just need to sprinkle some Ajaxy goodness on your site.Of course, there's nothing wrong with that. And I have little doubt that there are a lot more people looking to use Ajax to spruce up an existing site or application than looking to build major web-based applications. And lots of those people will already know other aspects of web development and not need a rehash. For these sorts of developers, books like this one will fill an important niche. And Foundations has a lot to recommend it. It's well written and edited, and it has a friendly learning curve. It covers building a toolset for working effectively with JavaScript, like JavaDoc, JsUnit, GreaseMonkey, and Venkman.The main way in which this book shoots too low is by providing its straightforward examples only for Java on the server side. For a book that clocks in a thin 273 pages, it surely would have been easy to take the 50 pages of Java examples in chapter 4 and provide parallel chapters that implement the same examples in, say, PHP and ASP.Net. If the authors had merely done that, I would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending this book to Ajax newcomers. As it is, I can't help thinking that this book should be called Foundations of Ajax in JavaScript and Java. And since only the simplest of examples (the ones without any server-side interaction) will work on other platforms, this book will be completely useless to a large portion of its target audience. What a shame. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Informational *by M***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 26, 2012* I bought this along with other reads as I was starting my own business out of college. 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