Moore Dana, Budd Raymond, Benson Edward. Professional Rich Internet Applications: AJAX and Beyond

Wrox, 2007. — 565 p. — ISBN: 9780470082805.For several decades now, developers have believed certain things to be objectively true, perhaps even indisputable. We consider ourselves members of a specific development and deployment "tribe." Rather than consider yourself a developer, you may consider yourself to be a "Java developer," or "Microsoft .Net developers," with the limitations and technology constraints implied by membership in the tribe.It's hardly possible to have been a software developer for any length of time and not have written code using a rich client API for Windows, MAC OS/X, or Linux. This accounts for the responsiveness of certain types of applications — word processors, for example.Learning the technical approaches from this book, and understanding how and why Rich Internet Applications are different, will teach you to look at the world from a completely different point of view.