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Things are getting quite busy here at EBA where not only we are almost ready to launch into a new development cycle but I will finally be returning to Vancouver from London.

Also of interest is that Andre, Alexei and I are writing a book on Enterprise AJaX for Prentice Hall/Addison Wesley.

We are going to cover some topics that are of particular importance when building enterprise systems (CRM, Accounting etc) as opposed to things like Google Suggest but we will still try to keep some perspective at the same time.

Currently we are looking at the following sort of outline:

Chapter 1: Ajax and the Enterprise (RIA and how / why it is needed in today’s enterprise)
Chapter 2: Ajax Building Blocks (JavaScript, DOM, CSS - the usual suspects)
Chapter 3: Building With AJAX (Client side frameworks like Scriptaculous and Dojo as well as fundametnals for creating custom AJaX components)
Chatper 4: AJAX on the Server (Server frameworks for Java, .NET and either PHP or RoR)
Chapter 5: Design to Deployment (Looking at application design issues including UML etc, prototyping and performance analysis, unit and regression testing etc, and finally deployment issues like script size and caching etc)
Chapter 6: AJAX Architecture (Look at some of the nuts and bolts of the design decisions such as asynch messaging, caching, and security)
Chapter 7: Making Usable Web Applications (Yellow fade)
Chapter 8: Risk Management (Something to help you convince your manager you have thought it through)
Chapter 9: Business Case Studies (From our consulting and product experience with Microsoft, Fidelity and more)
Chapter 10: Life After AJAX (A look at the cool technologies that are going to influence the direction of AJAX in the coming months and years)

Stay tuned, as we move forward we will be soliciting feedback from all you out there with beta chapters and code samples. If you already know of something that other books are not offereing and you would like to see then by all means let us know.

We will have a site up shortly at EnterpriseAJaX.com