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“The core technologies of Ajax are quite straightforward; the hard part is applying them in the real world. Fortunately, the authors have been putting Ajax into practice since long before the term Ajax was even coined. Enterprise AJAX offers excellent coverage of issues rarely explained to date, but frequently encountered by enterprise developers including architecting of Ajax applications, and how to deal with such concerns as usability, security, and reliability.”
-DR. MICHAEL MAHEMOFF, PH.D. author of Ajax Design Patterns (AjaxPatterns.org)

WebObjects Web Application Construction Kit will lead the reader through the sequential steps of writing a project in WebObjects. Apple Computer’s WebObjects is a graphical Web development suite for the creation of Dynamic, web-based applications. WebObjects enables developers to generate rich Java client interfaces with the code-free “Direct to Web” feature. The “Direct to Java Client” technology uses wizards, pre-configured templates, and dynamically generated user interfaces to make client/server Java database development easier. Our resource teaches the reader to access a database early on, so that the knowledge gained will have immediate impact on projects. Readers will also learn useful design patterns tested in the field, along with the application of complex topics such as database inheritance. This book is packed with topics that are absolutely needed to be a successful WebObjects developer.
Customer Review: Not bad.
This book answered many questions I had on WebObjects. The only thing I don’t like is the screenshots are from a Windows environment. I would love to have screenshots from both Windows and MacOS.
Customer Review: A very good starter
It is a very good starter for learning WebObjects. ….

WebObjects Framework i18N and L10n (internationalization and localization) are not covered. These are significant topics especially for Asian language web sites!

It is better if this book also discuss more EOF stuff such as nested editing context, Java client EOF and multithreading issues. Buy Now!

Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today’s Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors’ years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today. With an entire section devoted to each design principle, Designing Web Interfaces helps you:

• Make It Direct-Edit content in context with design patterns for In Page Editing, Drag & Drop, and Direct Selection
• Keep It Lightweight-Reduce the effort required to interact with a site by using In Context Tools to leave a “light footprint”
• Stay on the Page-Keep visitors on a page with overlays, inlays, dynamic content, and in-page flow patterns
• Provide an Invitation-Help visitors discover site features with invitations that cue them to the next level of interaction
• Use Transitions-Learn when, why, and how to use animations, cinematic effects, and other transitions
• React Immediately-Provide a rich experience by using lively responses such as Live Search, Live Suggest, Live Previews, and more

Designing Web Interfaces illustrates many patterns with examples from working websites. If you need to build or renovate a website to be truly interactive, this book gives you the principles for success. Buy Now!