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CHI*ATLANTA : EVENTS : 2005: AJAX — Time for The Transformation of Web Applications


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AJAX is hot hot hot. The techniques of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript + XML) have been under our noses for years but in the past few months the term has spread across the web development community like wildfire. Is AJAX for real? Will AJAX fulfill user’s desires to for intuitive, easy-to-use applications?

In this session we’ll cover:

How AJAX Works.
Examples of AJAX GUIs
Bringing "Richness" to an AJAX application
Considerations for accessiblity
Use AJAX for data, for XML, or for GUI?
AJAX Frameworks & Libraries
Building a business-oriented AJAX application

We’ll end with a demonstration and comparison of an AJAX enabled business application vs. a traditional HTML app.

Finally we’ll discuss what our team had to consider and some of the pitfalls we found when it came to implementing our own AJAX framework.

Speaker:
Steve Benfield, VP of Strategy & Technology Evangelism, ClearNova
Steve has been involved in Java & web development since 1996 and is former CTO of SilverStream Software. He has spoken previously at AJUG as well as Java One, Web Services Edge, Software Development Expo, OMG, Gartner Symposium, and Comdex. Steve guarantees that you will not fall asleep at this presentation and you will walk away with a clear understanding of AJAX.