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Ajax in Action Review by Joseph Flores
Incredible depth and information- don't trust the uninformed!
I read through some other user reviews before digging into this, and I noticed one major flaw in most of the lower-rated reviews: none of the reviewers seem to understand Ajax, nor what it is defined as (Asynchronous Javascript + XML)- Ajax is not some magical new scripting language, and this book is not for the person who doesn't understand the basics of OO programming or Javascript.
The book sets out to teach the reader everything they need to know about Ajax, and in that regard it succeeds brilliantly; Crane and Pascarello do their damnedest to make sure that the reader is following the best programming practices when building their apps, and guide you along the way to make sure that they explain, as best possible, why certain tasks should be handled client-side or server-side. Easy to understand diagrams and illustrations are peppered throughout to help you understand the concepts, and the code snippets are annotated by flow of functionality, allowing you to glance at a code block and understand the process, a much simpler design than the classic "3 page clarification after a huge 5 page block of code" layout that seems to pervade the tech publishing world nowadays.
Overall, I would highly recommend this book to any programmer familiar with client- and server-side scripting that needs a good lesson in combining them both into a dynamic, highly functional app.