Manning Laszlo in Action Jan 2008 eBook BBL

Laszlo in Action (c) by Manning Publications

The type of the release is: eBook

In the PDF format with ISBN: 1932394834 and Pub Date: February 01, 2008

The size of the release is: 03 disks x 2.88mb

And released on: 01/14/2008

Laszlo in Action is the first comprehensive guide to the Laszlo system

and its language LZX. OpenLaszlo is an increasingly popular open-source

platform for the development and delivery of rich internet applications

across multiple platforms: Flash, DHTML, and J2ME. 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 through the increased productivity

resulting from LZX's declarative approach. 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. The cross-platform nature of

Laszlo LZX applications allows source code with only minimum

modifications to run natively on all popular web browsers, on all

desktop operating systems, on the Flash platform, and other platforms

in the future. 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, this book provides

a very hands-on approach towards building applications that solve

real-world problems across both the Flash and DHTML platforms. Starting

with the fundamentals of Laszlo LZX, the authors quickly move towards

applying this knowledge to the design and development of a full-scale

application called the Laszlo Market. This provides a working context to

assist understanding the underlying concepts of Laszlo LZX and, more

importantly, how to apply this knowledge in innovative ways. 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.

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