Customized Ajax Training Courses

Here are the main Ajax-specified topics covered in the course taught by Marty Hall. If you have a group of at least eight interested developers (10 for courses outside the US or Canada), contact Marty to arrange a course at your location. If you have fewer developers, see the public Ajax & GWT training course page for info on the open-enrollment version in Maryland.

Please note that for some courses, these Ajax-specific topics can be combined with servlet and JSP programming topics, since you need both client-side code and server-side code to develop Ajax applications. Some clients also want to add Ajax coverage to the Struts or JSF courses. However, some clients already have strong servlet/JSP skills and want to learn only the Ajax-specific parts, and these are the topics listed below. Contact Marty to put together a customized blend of topics to fit your needs.

Syllabus

Review

• Installing and running Web applications, JSP scripting,
  manipulating HTTP headers, the MVC architecture

Foundational Topics

• Crash course on JavaScript
• Crash course on CSS
• Using JSON data
• Using XML data

JavaScript/Ajax Toolkits

• Prototype
• Scriptaculous (and drag-and-drop)
• Direct Web Remoting (DWR)

Abstracting Ajax with JSP Custom Tags

• Building JSP custom tag libraries
• The AjaxTags library: basics
• The AjaxTags library: advanced topics

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

• GWT: basics
• GWT: RPC
• GWT: advanced widgets and topics
• GWT: The JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI)

Using Ajax with JavaServer Faces (JSF)

• JSF basics: actions
• JSF basics: beans
• Ajax4jsf
• IceFaces