Ajax Design Patterns

9.1. RESTful Service API, HTTP, REST, Standard, Universal, Web Figure 9-1. RESTful Service 9.1.1. Developer Story Devi's producing a public web site explaining pharmaceuticals to the public. The browser applications will pull down dru...

9.2. RPC Service Delegate, Facade, Procedure, Proxy, Remote, Remoting, RPC, SOAP, WSDL Figure 9-2. RPC Service 9.2.1. Developer Story Dave's finished coding the backend services for some blogging software. There's an ArticleRepos...

9.3. Ajax Stub Delegate, Facade, Procedure, Proxy, Remote, Remoting, RPC Figure 9-3. Ajax Stub 9.3.1. Developer Story Devi begins working on the browser script for a trading application and soon decides she needs a way to exec...

9.4. HTML Message AHAH, Direct, Display, HTML, InnerHTML, Message, Precise, ServerSide, Visual Figure 9-4. HTML Message 9.4.1. Developer Story Dave's identified the need for a credit history service, providing a list of t...

9.5. Plain-Text Message Acknowlegement, Custom, PlainText, Semantic, String Figure 9-6. Plain-Text Message 9.5.1. Developer Story Devi's working on an auto-completion form field. Every few seconds, the server needs to ...

9.6. XML Message Document, Format, Hierarchical, PlainOldXML, POX, Semantic, Structured, XML Figure 9-8. XML Message 9.6.1. Devloper Story Dave is creating an Ajax search engine. The results are offered as a RESTful Service, so t...

9.7. JSON Message JSON, Marshal, Semantic, Serialize, YAML Figure 9-10. JSON Message 9.7.1. Developer Story Dave is creating an Ajax calendar. The browser periodically polls for new appointments, which the server is sending as JSON me...