As a Java programmer, how can you tackle the disruptive client-server approach to web development? With this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how today’s client-side technologies and web APIs work with various Java tools. Author Casimir Saternos provides the big picture of client-server development, and then takes you through many practical client-server architectures. You’ll work with hands-on projects in several chapters to get a feel for the topics discussed. User habits, technologies, and development methods have drastically altered web app design in recent years. But the Web itself hasn’t changed. This book shows you how to build apps that conform to the web’s underlying architecture. Learn the advantages of using separate client and server tiers, including code organization and speedy prototyping Explore the major tools, frameworks, and starter projects used in JavaScript development Dive into web API design and REST style of software architecture Understand Java’s alternatives to traditional packaging methods and application server deployment Build projects with lightweight servers, using jQuery with Jython, and Sinatra with Angular Create client-server web apps with traditional Java web application servers and libraries

Written specifically for Java developers, this book describes and demonstrates the creation of JavaScript rich web applications that communicate with RESTful JSON web services implemented in Java. This development approach maintains a clear distinction between client-side and server-side technologies, in contrast to JSF, GWT, and similar server-side templating technologies where user-interface development is largely performed server side.

As a Java programmer, how can you tackle the disruptive client-server approach to web development? With this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how today’s client-side technologies and web APIs work with various Java tools. Author Casimir Saternos provides the big picture of client-server development, and then takes you through many practical client-server architectures. You’ll work with hands-on projects in several chapters to get a feel for the topics discussed. User habits, technologies, and development methods have drastically altered web app design in recent years. But the Web itself hasn’t changed. This book shows you how to build apps that conform to the web’s underlying architecture. Learn the advantages of using separate client and server tiers, including code organization and speedy prototyping Explore the major tools, frameworks, and starter projects used in JavaScript development Dive into web API design and REST style of software architecture Understand Java’s alternatives to traditional packaging methods and application server deployment Build projects with lightweight servers, using jQuery with Jython, and Sinatra with Angular Create client-server web apps with traditional Java web application servers and libraries

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Building rich JavaScript applications that bring a desktop experience to the Web requires moving state from the server to the client side—not a simple task. This hands-on book takes proficient JavaScript developers through all the steps necessary to create state-of-the-art applications, including structure, templating, frameworks, communicating with the server, and many other issues. Throughout the book, you'll work with real-world example applications to help you grasp the concepts involved. Learn how to create JavaScript applications that offer a more responsive and improved experience. Use the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, and learn how to manage dependencies inside your application Get an introduction to templating and data binding Learn about loading remote data, Ajax, and cross-domain requests Create realtime applications with WebSockets and Node.js Accept dropped files and upload data with progress indicators Use major frameworks and libraries, including jQuery, Spine, and Backbone Write tests and use the console to debug your applications Get deployment best practices, such as caching and minification

Conallen introduces architects and designers and client/server systems to issues and techniques of developing software for the Web. He expects readers to be familiar with object-oriented principles and concepts, particularly with UML (unified modeling language), and at least one Web application architecture or environment. The second edition incorporates both technical developments and his experience since 1999. He does not provide a bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book shows how to build front-end web applications with plain JavaScript, not using any (third-party) framework or library. A front-end web application can be provided by any web server, but it is executed on the user's computer device (smartphone, tablet or notebook), and not on the remote web server. Typically, but not necessarily, a front-end web application is a single-user application, which is not shared with other users. Content: I. Associations 20. Reference Properties and Unidirectional Associations 21. Implementing Unidirectional Functional Associations 22. Implementing Unidirectional Non-Functional Associations 23. Practice Projects 24. Bidirectional Associations 25. Implementing Bidirectional Associations 26. Part-Whole Associations 27. Lessons Learned 28. Practice Projects II. Inheritance in Class Hierarchies 29. Subtyping and Inheritance 30. Implementing Class Hierarchies in a Plain JavaScript Front-End App 31. Implementing Class Hierarchies in a Java EE Back-End App 32. Practice Projects III. Model-Based App Development