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AjaxPatterns.org began as a collection of design patterns, which formed the basis of the book, Ajax Design Patterns, and grew into a publicly editable wiki on anything and everything Ajax. All pages (except this homepage) are now editable, no registration required. Feel free to contribute!

• Info: AjaxPatterns Background, Contributing, Press Info
• Ajax Design Patterns Book: Contents and Recommendations, Buy PDF/Book @ O'Reilly, Buy @ Amazon, Initial Announcement (As Podcast/MP3)
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• Subscribe to Feeds: New Pages, Recent Changes, Michael Mahemoff's blog/podcast, AjaxPatterns Tag
• Contact: Mail Michael Mahemoff (Wiki curator/founder)

• Frameworks and Libraries Overview: Frameworks and Libraries Portal Page
• Javascript Frameworks: Multipurpose Frameworks, Remoting Frameworks, Effects Frameworks, Flash Frameworks, Logging Frameworks, XML Frameworks, Specialised Frameworks
• Server-Side and Hybrid Frameworks: C++ Ajax Frameworks, Coldfusion, DotNet, Java, Lisp, Lotus Notes, Multi-Language, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SmallTalk
• Ajax Tools: IDEs, DOM inspectors, Traffic Sniffers, etc.

Javascript Resources

• Tutorials: Javascript Regular Expressions, Javascript Reflection

• Links: Links Portal Page, External websites, Articless, Tutorials, Conferences/Training, Jobs, Audio/Video/Podcasts, Accessibility, Security
• Books: Ajax Books
• Projects: Ajax Projects to Try
• Terminology: Ajax Terminology

• Patterns Overview: Latest list of all patterns and their summaries
• Background: Why Ajax Patterns?, Principles, Pattern Template, Slideshow (4MB HTML), Credits
• Live Demos: Live examples referenced in the patterns, Live Demos for Tutorial

There are 70+ Ajax patterns here, most linking to the original draft version for the design patterns book. Foundational Technology Patterns are lower-level patterns and a suitable introduction for people learning Ajax for the first time. Programming Patterns explain how these components are combined in a maintainable, performant, manner. Functionality and Usability Patterns guide on user-interface and usability concepts. Development Process Patterns look at typical developer activities like testing and debugging.

Please leave any comments or suggestions in the Community page. You can also mail the maintainer of AjaxPatterns, Michael Mahemoff.

• Ajax App: Ajax App
• Display Manipulation: Display Morphing, Page Rearrangement
• Web Remoting: Web Service, XMLHttpRequest Call, IFrame Call, HTTP Streaming, On-Demand Javascript
• Dynamic Behaviour: User Action, Scheduling
• Extended Technologies: Richer Plugin

• Web Services: RESTful Service, RPC Service, Ajax Stub, HTML Message, Plain-Text Message, XML Message, JSON Message, UED Message
• Browser-Server Dialogue : Call Tracking, Periodic Refresh, Submission Throttling, Explicit Submission, Personalization Call, Distributed Events, Cross-Domain Proxy, Object Persistence
• DOM Population: XML Data Island, Browser-Side XSLT, Browser-Side Templating, Dual-Side Templating
• Performance Optimisation: Browser-Side Cache, Fat Client, Guesstimate, Submission Throttling, Explicit Submission, Multi-Stage Download, Predictive Fetch, Multithreading
• Maintainability, Code Generation and Reuse: Server-Side Code Generation, Cross-Browser Component, Flyweight

• Widgets: Slider, Progress Indicator, Drilldown, Data Grid, Rich Text Editor, Suggestion, Live Search, Live Command-Line, Live Form
• Page Architecture: Drag-And-Drop, Sprite, Popup, Malleable Content, Microlink, Portlet, Status Area, Update Control, Transparent Message, Virtual Workspace
• Visual Effects: One-Second Spotlight, One-Second Mutation, One-Second Motion, Highlight
• Functionality: Lazy Registration, Direct Login, Host-Proof Hosting, Timeout, Heartbeat, Unique URLs, Dynamic Favicons

• Diagnosis: Logging, Debugging, DOM Inspection, Traffic Sniffing
• Testing: Simulation Service, Browser-Side Test, Service Test, System Test