Ajax Tutorials and Libraries
Free Ajax Scripts Directory
A collection of free ajax scripts and tutorials with demos so you can test them out.
Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials
This is a list of helpful ajax programming tutorials found around the web.
60 More AJAX Tutorials
This is another ajax programming blog entry by the same guy who listed
30 useful ajax programming tutorials. Many of the listed tutorials come
with ajax source code.
W3 Schools AJAX Tutorial
An AJAX tutorial from the helpful people at W3Schools.
10-Week Free AJAX Programming (with Passion!) Online Course
The first session of this free online AJAX course is already underway,
but there are slides and various other resources available. This is a
Java site so the AJAX course ultimately involves JavaServer Faces and
AJAX integration.
Ajax in Action
There are two sample chapters and a 22-minute screencast on ajax
available for free at the site for the book (source code appears to be
available too). You will need to register with an email to see the
screencast though.
ASP.NET Atlas
Atlas is a free framework from Microsoft for adding Ajax to ASP.NET pages.
Yahoo! User Interface Library
This is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for
building interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM
scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The components in the YUI Library have been
released as open source under a BSD license.
Google Web Toolkit
This is a java software development kit that lets you build AJAX
applications like Google Earth and Gmail. You write your program in
Java, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to
browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.
Guide to Using AJAX and XMLHttpRequest from WebPasties
This is an Ajax articles that shows you how to use Ajax to
automatically fill in form fields with the city and state based on the
zip code that the user enters into another field.
Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax
This is an introductory Ajax article at IBM.
Mastering Ajax, Part 2
Part two of this ajax series covers making asynchronus requests with javascript and ajax.
Getting Started with Ajax
This article at A List Apart is an excerpt from the book Web Design in
a Nutshell and covers using ajax with innerHTML and Nodes to manipulate
page content dynamically.
Creating a MySQL connection with PHP/AJAX
This is a short ajax tutorial on opening a connection to MySql using ajax.
Sarissa
Sarissa is a cross-browser ECMAScript library for client side XML
manipulation, including loading XML from URLs or strings, performing
XSLT transformations, XPath queries and more. Supported: Gecko
(Mozilla, Firefox etc), IE, KHTML (Konqueror, Safari
NAJAX
This package can be used to call PHP classes on the Web server side
from Javascript code in Web pages. It uses AJAX technology to submit
HTTP requests from Javascript to pass call parameters and collect and
process the responses.
Rico
Rico provides a very simple interface for registering Ajax request
handlers as well as HTML elements or JavaScript objects as Ajax
response objects. Multiple elements and/or objects may be updated as
the result of one Ajax request
xajax
xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily
create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, and PHP. Applications developed with xajax can
asynchronously call server-side PHP functions and update content
without reloading the page
Sajax
Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the
Ajax framework � also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting � as
easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP, Perl or Python
functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a
browser refresh
DWR
DWR is a Java open source library which helps developers wanting to
write web sites that include AJAX technology. It allows code in a web
browser to use Java functions running on a web server as if it was in
the browser.
AjaxAnywhere
AjaxAnywhere turns any set of existing JSP components into AJAX-aware
components without a complex JavaScript coding. Simply separate your
web page into multiple zones, and use AjaxAnywhere to refresh only
those zones that needs to be updated.
How To Use AJAX
Kris Hadlock explains how to use AJAX in a real-world situation and how
you can assess its value in a project. By the time you finish reading
this article, you'll know what AJAX is as well as where, why, and how
to use it.
Very Dynamic Web Interfaces
This article explores the use of JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object.
Ajax Programming
This Wikipedia article has some general information about Ajax programming including example sites using ajax.
Ajax Tutorial
This point of this article is not to debate the merits of one approach
over another, but to introduce ajax in a way that is simple, yet
powerful enough to be useful. The author uses php, xml and javascript.
AJAX:Getting Started
This article at the Mozilla developer center guides you through the
AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you
started.
Rasmus 30 second AJAX Tutorial
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Using the XML HTTP Request object
Ajax articles that is a short tutorial with ajax examples.
AJAX: Instant Tutorial
More of a short article than a tutorial on how to make a call to an
http server get content and load it into your existing page without
having to refresh the whole page.
A Simpler Ajax Path
This ajax article looks at some ways to handle server-side errors to
make debugging less of a headache. It uses the example of a html form
that posts to a server-side Ruby script.
The Hows and Whys of Degradable Ajax
Includes an online example and downloadable code (php is used server-side).
Ajax Tutorial: Ajax What Is It Good For?
Walks through the basics of Ajax and culminates in the building of a little Ajax powered Fading Image Gallery application.
Remote Scripting with AJAX,
This two-part series of articles covers remote scripting using the AJAX
XMLHttpRequest protocol. Part one walks through an example application
that demonstrates how to implement the protocol, while part two shows
how to create a usable interface.
An Introduction To Ajax
This articles is an introduction to ajax programming and using the DWR java library.
Developing AJAX Applications the Easy Way
This article demonstrates the use of DWR, a Java open source library,
to create a multi-user web-based chat site. It demonstrates how simple
it is to integrate JavaScript in the web browser with Java on the
server.
Ajax on Rails
This article introduces the incredibly easy-to-use Ajax support that is part of the Ruby on Rails web application framework.
Ajax Mistakes
A list of the many mistakes developers using Ajax often make.
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