Chapter 19. Partial Rendering: The Easy Way to AJAX

Gone are the days when a Web application could be architected and implemented as a collection of related and linked pages. The incredible success of the Internet has whetted people's appetite for Web-related technology beyond imagination. Over the years, the users' demand for ever more powerful and Web-exposed applications and services led architects and developers to incorporate more and more features into the server platform and client browser. As a result, the traditional pattern of Web applications is becoming less adequate every day. A radical change in the design and programming model cannot be further delayed.

AJAX is a relatively new acronym that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and ...

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