Chapter 9

Service Integration Strategies

When building Web applications there are two primary access strategies for loading data. There is the traditional, server-side access strategy and the Web 2.0, client-side access strategy. In this chapter, we are going to show examples of integrating jQuery Mobile with both access strategies and we will discuss the advantages of each. jQuery Mobile integrates very well with both strategies and as a result, you can choose the appropriate access strategy that best suits your application needs.

To start, we are going to show two client-side integration examples. With the popularity of social media, our first example will demonstrate how to integrate with Twitter's RESTful API. RESTful APIs are lightweight ...

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