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Thursday, Jan 14
Mastering Grails: Rich Media Test
Many-to-many (m:m) relationships can be tricky to deal with in a Web application. In this installment of Mastering Grails, Scott Davis shows you how to implement m:m relationships in Grails successfully. See how they're handled by the Grails Object Relational Mapping (GORM) API and the...
Monday, Jan 11
How To: Creating mashup applications using IBM JWL and GMaps4JSF in a WebSphere 7.0 environment
In a previous article "GMaps4JSF in the JSF 2.0 Ajax World," I explained how GMaps4JSF aims to integrate Google maps with JavaServer Faces (JSF). Now, in this article, I describe step by step how to create a mashup JWL application that uses different GMaps4JSF components in Rational Softw...
Monday, Jan 4
Rich Internet applications using ZK
ZK, an open source Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) framework written in Java code, lets you write a Web 2.0-enabled, rich Internet application without writing a single line of JavaScript code. Typical Ajax frameworks like Dojo have JavaScript libraries that expose certain API's f...
Monday, Dec 7
Process XML in the browser using jQuery
The popular jQuery JavaScript library is best known for its use working with HTML, but you can also use it to process XML, if you're careful and aware of the pitfalls. This article shows how to use jQuery to process the Atom Web feed format. Web feed XML is perhaps the most pervasive XML format a...
Monday, Sep 28
How To: Monitor home energy with AMEE
Electricity is invisible. To understand how people use it, you need to make it visible. This tutorial will show you how easy it is to build a Web-based energy monitoring system yourself, using a Current Cost real-time energy monitor and AMEE, a neutral Web-based API for energy data, combin...
Tuesday, Sep 22
How To: Create a dynamic Ajax-based Web application with the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0
The IBM WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0 provides a rich set of components that enable developers to easily and more efficiently build powerful Ajax-based applications. This article explains how you can build a Web application that features dynamic charts using th...
Monday, Aug 24
How To: GMaps4JSF in the JSF 2.0 Ajax world
GMaps4JSF, a JavaServer Faces (JSF) mashup library, integrates Google Maps with JSF. Using GMaps4JSF, you can construct complex street view panoramas and maps with just a few JSF tags. You can also easily attach different components to the map. This article explains how to configure GMap...
Monday, Jul 27
How To: Build a Web presentation application using Ajax technology, Part 1: Developing the Web UI
How does Google Docs put such amazing functionality into a Web application? They leverage Web 2.0 technologies, which provide robust functionality with relatively simple code. In this article, learn how to build a Web application to create slideshow presentations using Asynchronous...
Monday, Mar 2
How To: Using E4X on the server-side with Jaxer
The ECMAScript for XML (E4X) standard gives JavaScript developers a powerful API to work with XML. As it is not supported in Internet Explorer, you might not get to use it often. That is not an issue if you use JavaScript on the server with Jaxer. In this article, you see how JavaScript and E4X ma...
Monday, Jun 23
How To: Develop Ajax applications like the pros, Part 2: Using the Prototype JavaScript Framework and script.aculo.us
Are you building a Web application? Is it supposed to look more like cragislist or flickr? If the answer is the former, then you can probably skip this article. Still reading? Well you are in luck. In this article, Part 2 of a three-part series on JavaScript libraries, you will see how to use th...
Monday, Jun 9
How To: Create reusable and redistributable components with Dojo and AJAX
In this article, learn to use Dojo and Ajax to develop reusable components that can easily be integrated with core applications. A a step-by-step example shows how to develop a Web application that adds mailing capabilities to an existing blogging application, generates mailing widge...
Monday, Apr 28
How To: Create an Ajax-based IM client
The ability to instant message (IM) co-workers and friends is a great convenience, but some environments prohibit the use of instant messaging clients in the workplace due to security concerns. The exercise in this tutorial resolves any security concerns by showing you how to use Ajax t...
Monday, Dec 17
Build an Ajax-enabled search page using the Rico JavaScript library, ColdFusion MX 7, and Windows Indexing Service
A Web site or intranet has such a high volume of information available that you need special tools to index the content and provide access to it in a fast and convenient way. Learn how to do just that and provide a state-of-the-art search facility with the help of an Ajax library coupled with m...
Monday, Oct 22
Ajax and XML: Ajax for media
With the advent of widely available broadband, media, movies, images, and sound drive the Web 2.0 revolution. Learn to combine media with technologies such as PHP and Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) to create a compelling experience for your customers.
Make Ajax development easier with AjaxTags
Developers and users have much higher expectations for the usability and responsiveness of Web-based applications in the Web 2.0 era. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past two years, you've likely heard of Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (the Ajax technique). Ajax allows you t...
Monday, Oct 8
Auto-save JSF forms with Ajax: Part 3
In the first article of this series, author and Java developer Andrei Cioroianu showed how to submit the user input of a Web form with Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) and how to handle the Ajax requests with JavaServer Faces (JSF). In the second article of the series, Andrei discussed...
Monday, Aug 20
How To: Develop an Ajax-based file upload portlet using DWR
File upload is a basic function of today's Web portals. In this article, authors Xiaobo Yang and Rob Allan describe how to develop an Ajax-based file upload JSR 168-compliant portlet using DWR (Direct Web Remoting). DWR is an ideal Ajax framework for Java developers that dynamically gene...
Wednesday, Aug 15
How To: Program with XML for DB2, Part 3: Program with XML in the client
Learn how to extend the XML model in order to create rich clients using XML data transferred from your application server. Discover how to use Dynamic HTML (DHTML) to present the XML, XPath to navigate the XML and the Document Object Model (DOM) to modify and serialize the XML back to the app...
Monday, Aug 13
How To: Mastering Ajax, Part 11: JSON on the server side
In the last article, you learned how to take an object in JavaScript and convert it into a JSON representation. That format is an easy one to use for sending (and receiving) data that maps to objects, or even arrays of objects. In this final article of the series, you'll learn how to handle data...
Sunday, May 20
How To: Build an Ajax-enabled application using the Google Web Toolkit and Apache Geronimo, Part 2: Integrate your Ajax apps with a back-end MySQL database using a servlet
In the first part of this tutorial, you learned how to use the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to rapidly build an Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax)-enabled Web application and deploy it to Apache Geronimo. In this installment, Part 2 of the two-part series, you add more functionality to the a...
Monday, May 7
How To: Build an Ajax-enabled application using the Google Web Toolkit and Apache Geronimo, Part 1: Run compiled Google Web Toolkit applications on Geronimo
Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax)-enabled Web applications have taken the software development world by storm. Some of the most notable ones have been built by Google. This two-part tutorial series shows you how the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Apache Geronimo can help you rapidly bu...
How To: Using Ajax with WSRF::Lite
Learn how the state of a WS-Resource deployed in WSRF::Lite, a Perl implementation of the Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF), can be displayed and modified by a Web browser using Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax). In this tutorial, an example WS-Resource illustrates how you can c...
Monday, Mar 19
How To: Ajax and XML: Five Ajax anti-patterns
You can learn a lot about how to do things correctly by understanding how things are done incorrectly. Certainly, there's a right way and a wrong way to write Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications. This article discusses some common coding practices you will want to avoid.
Tuesday, Jan 23
How To: Build an Ajax application using Google Web Toolkit, Apache Derby, and Eclipse, Part 2: The reliable back end
In this second article in the series on using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to build Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications, learn how to build the Apache Derby database for your Web application, and use it to drive the GWT. Part 1 of this series introduced you to GWT and demonstra...
How To: Mastering Ajax, Part 9: Using the Google Ajax Search API
Making asynchronous requests isn't just about talking to your own server-side programs. You can also communicate with public APIs like those from Google or Amazon, and add more functionality to your Web applications than just what your own scripts and server-side programs provide. In t...
