• Identify architectural and design challenges inherent in the use of Ajax for Java applications.
• Define a request-handling path that best addresses the needs of a given Java web application.
• Manage script content and bind scripts to graphical widgets using JSP.
• Use JSP tag files to consolidate presentation chunks such that they can be shared between pages and Ajax responses.
• Process and generate various Ajax wire formats, including text, HTML fragments, XML, and JSON, both client-side and server-side.
• Understand the impact of Ajax processing on session management and security.
• Use RMI frameworks including DWR and jabsorb to provide direct connectivity to Java domain and/or service classes.
• Use JSF componentn libraries including RichFaces and Trinidad to model Ajax functionality as part of the usual JSF UI model and processing lifecycle.

• Understanding of the Ajax programming model is required. This course is intended to follow Developing Ajax Applications, or some equivalent training.
• Significant Java programming experience is required.
• Basic servlets and JSP programming experience is required.
• JSF experience will be helpful for the final unit, but is not required.

• The Simplest Solution
• Issues with Ajax Processing
• Model/View/Controller for Ajax
• Rendering Ajax Responses
• RMI Frameworks
• Ajax/JSF Frameworks

• JSP Custom Tags
• Tag Files
• Encapsulating UI Fragments
• Encapsulating Scripts
• Delivering Scripts Once
• Generating Unique Scripts
• Binding Scripts to Widgets
• Rendering Ajax Responses with JSP

• Ajax-Only Servlets
• Multi-Purpose Servlets
• Front Controllers
• Parsing Ajax Wire Formats
• Producing Ajax Wire Formats
• Session Management and Security
• Finding Domain Objects
• Impacts of Ajax on Page Processing

• Java Objects in JavaScript
• RMI for Ajax
• Direct Web Remoting
• jabsorb
• Serialization Issues
• Serialization vs. Remote Invocation
• Creating Objects on the Client Side
• Ajax RMI vs. Web Services
• Security Issues

• MVC and Ajax
• JavaServer Faces
• UI Components
• The JSF Lifecycle
• What JSF Does for Ajax

• Issues with JSP and JSF
• JSP Custom Tags and JSF
• Facelets

• Ajax Component Libraries
• RichFaces
• The Ajax4jsf Model
• Trinidad
• Partial Page Rendering
• Customizing Client-Side Logic
• Ajax-Aware Widgets
• Polling and Pushing
• JSF and User Events

• Comparison of Ajax Strategies
• Metrics: Code Efficiency
• Metrics: Runtime Efficiency
• Intangibles: Completeness and Correctness
• Intangibles: Ease of Development
• Whither Hence?

Hardware – minimal: 500 MHz, 256 meg RAM, 500 meg disk space

Hardware – recommended: 1.5 GHz, 512 meg RAM, 1 gig disk space

Operating system: Tested on Windows XP Professional. Course software should be viable on all systems which support a Java 6 Developer's Kit.

Network and Security: Limited privileges required

Software: All free downloadable tools.