Book Organization

This book is divided into 11 chapters, including this introductory one. Conceptually, the book is also divided into two major parts. In Part One, Chapters 2 through 5 are essentially an introduction to Web application technologies and concepts, which provide the foundation on which the second part of the book is based. The first chapters can be skipped by readers intimately familiar with Web application architectures; however, at least a cursory reading is still suggested.

Chapter 2, Web Application Basics, is an introduction to the very basic Web application architecture. We define the term Web application, thereby defining its scope and focus. The chapter continues with a definition of the principal communication mechanisms ...

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