How to create more interactive Web apps with Ajax technologies
Updated 08 Feb 2010
sMashing your application . . . the Ajax way Develop rich applications using PHP, Ajax, and LDAP on WebSphere sMash Developer's Edition. Using an online library simulation, including sample code, see how WebSphere sMash, based on Project Zero, is a development and run time environment that accommodates many development languages. More >
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