Phil McCarthy

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Building AJAX-Friendly Web Services When developers first realize what an AJAX client can do, they are often especially excited about its potential in playing the role of the View or even the Controller in the Model-View-Controller (MVC) patterns of application development, with Web services providing the Model layer. If you're unfamiliar with the term, MVC is a paradigm used by software developers to design user interface code (the View) that is decoupled from ... (more)

Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Creating an AJAX-Friendly Web Service

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Creating an AJAX-Friendly Web Service For our example Web services, we'll be loosely adhering to the REST principle and creating Web services that are addressable through the s... (more)

Real-World AJAX Book Preview: AJAX Without a Server-side Framework

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. AJAX Without a Server-side Framework If you already have AJAX-friendly web services in place, or have a complex site with a framework that's not readily modified, you may find ... (more)

Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Creating a Live Search Web Service with PHP

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Creating a Live Search Web Service with PHP To keep this simple we won't use a database. Instead we'll use an array of values. Create a new file, StateList.php, with the follo... (more)

AJAX in a SOA

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. AJAX in a Service-Oriented Architecture A service-oriented architecture isn't much more than a loosely coupled collection of services - often Web services. Services are defined... (more)