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Kick-start your Java apps, Part 2: Easy, lightweight Ajax development

Build an interactive Web application with the Kick-start your Java apps suite

Sing Li (westmakaha@yahoo.com), Author, Wrox Press
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Sing Li is the author of Professional Apache Tomcat, Early Adopter JXTA,, and Professional Jini, as well as numerous other books with Wrox Press. He is a regular contributor to technical magazines and is an active evangelist of the P2P evolution. Sing is a consultant and freelance writer and can be reached at westmakaha@yahoo.com.

Summary:  The combination of Eclipse, DB2® Express-C 9.5, and WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition 2.0 — all free to download, use, and deploy — is an excellent from-prototype-to-production suite for all of your Java™ and Java enterprise development needs. What might not be obvious is the relative ease with which you can use these proven tools to create, test, and deploy cutting-edge, lightweight applications as well. This tutorial guides you through the development of a small human-resources application, first using conventional JavaServer Pages (JSP) based technology, and then migrating it to a highly interactive solution using Ajax.

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Date:  05 Dec 2007 (Published 18 Apr 2006)
Level:  Intermediate
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In this tutorial, you:

  • Created an employee-information application using conventional JSP and servlet technology

  • Coded the project in Eclipse and deployed it on Application Server for testing

  • Created a servlet that serves employee photo bitmaps fetched from DB2 Express-C 9.5 BLOB data fields

  • Downloaded and tested DWR for Ajax development within Eclipse

  • Migrated the application to a lightweight Ajax design using DWR's JavaScript library

  • Coded the Employee POJO for remoting through DWR

  • Coded and tested the new Ajax application in Eclipse and deployed and tested it using Application Server

Eclipse, Application Server, and DB2 Express-C 9.5 don't restrict you in any way to Java EE-only development. In fact, the Kick-start your Java apps suite is an ideal platform for exploring lightweight and alternative interactive user-interface technology. You can test and debug any creations you develop during your explorations in the familiar environment of the Eclipse IDE, and you can deploy them for production on the robust and proven combination of DB2 Express-C 9.5 and Application Server.

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