Description

The dramatic emergence of Ajax over the past year was a first step in the transition

from page-oriented HTML web applications towards more full-featured

rich internet applications. OpenLaszlo provides another important step in this

continuing evolutionary process. It provides developers with the tools to create

web-based applications offering the usability and interactivity associated with

desktop applications, and the low costs associated with web-based deployment.

Written to address the needs of a wide spectrum of developers, ranging from

client-side HTML and JavaScript developers all the way to enterprise-class Java

or Rails engineers,

Laszlo in Action provides a very hands-on approach towards

building applications that solve real-world problems across both the Flash and

DHTML platforms. The construction of the Laszlo Market proceeds over the

course of the book illustrating topics starting with an initial wireframe and storyboard

design to optimization issues dealing with the application's deployment

across the Flash and DHTML platforms.

Author

Norman Klein

, a former consultant with Laszlo Systems, has been a software

engineer for over 20 years, and has been involved in internet development since its

inception. He has also done extensive development work with both web frameworks

and other RIA languages such as Adobe’s Flex.

Max Carlson, one of the founders of Laszlo Systems, is the lead engineer on the

OpenLaszlo DHTML 4.0 project. He is also responsible for implementing many

of the features of the current 3.X OpenLaszlo release.

Glenn MacEwen, after 26 years on the Computing Science faculty of Queen’s

University in Canada, retired to Princeton, New Jersey, to work out of his home

office as a technical writer and editor. When not writing or editing, Glenn plays

bagpipes, flies small aircraft, and homebrews beer.