说明：  作者是Ajaxian.com的创始人，JavaOne、TheServerSide等诸多高级别会议的演讲者。本书作为Pragmatic系列之一，从实践出发，通过实例展示Ajax的诸多特性，手把手教你实现Google Map的绚丽效果。不仅教会你Ajax的技术细节，同时还带你了解各种功能强大的主流Ajax工具包（Dojo、Prototype、Script.aculo.us、DWR、Backbase、SmartClient、Ajax.NET、SAJAX、JSON-RPC），掌握Ajax实时查看源代码的方法以及进行代码调试的相应方法，学习Ajax的开发模式和框架。本书后半部分共用了五个章节，从服务器端编程的角度，详细讲述了Ajax同PHP、Ruby On Rails、Java和.NET等语言的融合，最后还介绍了与Ajax相类似的其他RIA技术以及Ajax的精彩未来（E4X, Canvas, SVG,的相关应用）。本书的全部代码下载地址：http://media.pragprog.com/titles/ajax/code/ajax-code.zip 本书秉承了《程序员修炼之道》的特点—— “从小工到专家”，各个层次的web开发人员都能从本书中获益匪浅。
(author is the founder of Ajaxian.com, JavaOne, TheServerSide and many other high-level meeting of the speaker. Pragmatic the book as one of the series, starting from practice, Ajax examples demonstrate the many characteristics Shoubashoujiao you realize the splendor Google Map results. Ajax church you not only technical details, also take you to understand the powerful mainstream Ajax Kit (Dojo, Prototype, Script.aculo.us, DWR, Backbase, SmartClient, Ajax.NET, SAJAX, JSON-RPC). Real-time master Ajax View the source code for the methods and the corresponding code debugging methods, Learning Ajax development model and the framework. The latter part of the book spent five chapters from the server side programming point of view, described in detail by Ajax with PHP, Ruby On Rails, Java and. NE)