Ajax is one of the hottest new methodologies on the web, bit it requires a lot of coding, and there are some inherent problems with Ajax applications. This book offers more than 50 adaptable recipes for common tasks using Ajax, DOM Scripting, and REST techniques, saving hours of development time. These provide complete solutions for form validation, drag and drop functionality, data sorting, data presentation techniques, application architecture, debugging, performance enhancements, server-side techniques for web services, and much more. The book makes use of REST and other design patterns, and many popular JavaScript libraries, focusing is on efficiency, optimization and reusability.