Developing Components Using the AJAX Library Framework

Among the challenges in developing AJAX applications are how to package applications into libraries and how to build true object-oriented frameworks. Although it’s easy to build scripts that respond to events with functional programming, a functional approach can lead to unmaintainable and nonportable scripts. A design goal and best practice of AJAX programming is to create a number of reusable components that can work with many different back-end services. If developed with this goal in mind, your AJAX application can be deployed in many applications as long as the supporting Web services are also deployed.

For example, let’s say your company wants to develop rich Internet applications but ...

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