AJAX is made up of a set of primary technologies: JavaScript, XML and CSS. All of these topics are covered in detail. The main topic will be JavaScript and its use in an AJAX environment. As part of this topic, the students will work with the DOM (Document Object Model).

In addition, there will be a focus on JavaScript developer created objects – their rationale and implementation; as well as the interaction between JavaScript and CSS.

Developers of web based applications and web site designers with solid experience in JavaScript.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Describe what AJAX is and when to use AJAX
• Create client-side code to work with AJAX
• Manipulate look and feel and content of a page dynamically and in the client side using JavaScript
• Handle advanced JavaScript considerations: event handling, creating their own objects and CSS manipulation
• Build a framework to encapsulate the AJAX API and Browser incompatibilities
• Understand the wealth of AJAX tools, libraries and frameworks available

• Introduction to AJAX
• JavaScript DOM API
• AJAX API (Sending Data to the Server)
• XML
• XHTML/HTML 4.0
• CSS and AJAX
• User (Developer) Created Objects
• Additional DOM Topics
• Server Communication
• JSON
• WEB 2.0
• Appendix - AJAX Tools Overview

Web application development and knowledge of JavaScript and HTML.