Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications

Now's the time-says Dino Esposito, an expert on Web development technologies-to think about AJAX and the future of Web design in a whole new way. While developers can use a variety of tools to code and build AJAX applications, architects must manage a variety of tradeoffs and compromises in their planning and design. In this book, Esposito challenges readers to think beyond the "easy way to AJAX," which involves adding AJAX capabilities to a non-AJAX system designed in the old model of Web development. Instead, he proposes an alternate, if more difficult, paradigm involving new patterns and new complexities-and culminating in a new, pure-AJAX architecture. You'll learn why far better solutions result from the second, more radical approach-and you'll get practical guidance on how to implement this new architecture for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).