In the midst of the often amorphous constellation of ideas and efforts known as Web 2.0, there are refreshingly concrete examples of great technologies being created and used by enthusiastic ...

Running a business on the World Wide Web can be a source of frustration if you don’t have the right tools. Many business owners continue to expect their customers to wait what seems like an eternity ...

If you've done any Web development at all recently, you've no doubt heard the buzz going on about Web Services and Ajax. The industry hype is so prevalent that you'd almost think people were talking ...

The foundation that makes AJAX possible is the communication layer with the server. The most complete option for performing this communication is the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object. If ...

This is a simple tutorial on Ajax that I hope will ease the fears of those of you who think Ajax can be intimidating. Despite the meaning of the term (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), Ajax really ...

Notice that ScriptManager can't generate a client-side proxy object that can be used to call the remote service? Dan shows you the workaround. It's amazing how much data is accessible through Web ...

Writing code to validate Web-form input can be even more of a chore than implementing form-processing logic. But help is at hand, thanks to the Struts 2 framework. Oleg Mikheev looks under the hood of ...

Notice that it's a Rich Internet Application. It includes a favorite feeds list, Friend of a Friend functionality, and a way to select favorite authors. Once you set up your favorites, you can get an ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. Slicker development techniques like Ajax, a way of building interactive browser-based applications, are fueling a surge in consumer Web ...

Sunil Patil concludes his introduction to the Dojo toolkit by walking you through an email client application that demonstrates Dojo’s support for common Ajax requirements. See for yourself how Dojo’s ...

Commentary--Recently, my buzzword detector went off when I tried to attend the monthly New England Java Users Group meeting and found myself wait-listed: The room with a capacity of about 300 was ...