原文：
About time!, November 14, 2006
Reviewer: Richard Rosen 'Rich Rosen - web application architect, author, gadfly' (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
In researching AJAX-specific books, I found they all covered the raw core stuff (what XMLHttpRequest is, what it does, and how to use it) but most of them gave only passing coverage to the frameworks/toolkits available for AJAX and DHTML processing. (e.g., 'XYZ is a very nice new toolkit for building AJAX-based web applications. Go to the XYZ web site and read the documentation that isnt there yet to see non-existent examples and learn how to use it.') 'AJAX Hacks' came pretty close with some good examples, but without enough breadth and depth. (It is, after all, a 'hacks' book.)
Just the presence of good examples and good coverage of Prototype, script.aculo.us, and DOJO in this book is enough to make it worthy of note. But the focus of the book is using AJAX with Java frameworks like Struts, Spring, and JSF, and in that regard it also does not disappoint. So you get not only some nice coverage of the client-side toolkits/frameworks that make Ajaxian things happen in the browser, you get a solid grounding in how to connect them to server-side applications using these Java frameworks.
Some deeper coverage on things like JSON and REST would have been nice, though.
译文：
在研读有关Ajax的图书过程中，我发现所有图书都讲述了最基本最核心的概念，即何谓XMLHttpRequest对象，该对象有何作用以及如何使用它。但大多数图书只是讲述其时可用的一些Ajax、DHTML框架与工具集。如某书中讲述XYZ是一个用于创建基于Ajax Web应用的相当不错的新工具集，但当我们去访问XYZ网站时，却发现其不仅没有提供相关的文档，也没有提供示例应用，无法进行学习。《Ajax Hacks》虽探究了一些著名Ajax应用，但缺乏深度与广度。(毕竟《Ajax Hacks》一书旨在'Hack'。)
本书示例精心设计，对Prototype、Scriptaculous与Dojo框架进行了细致分析，仅此就值得引起注意。该书的重点即如何结合Java框架如Struts、Spring与JSF使用Ajax，也阐述得差强人意。总体来说，通过本书，读者不仅可以掌握如何使用一些客户端框架/工具集创建Ajax客户端应用，还可以了解如何结合Java框架使其与服务器端应用通信。
如果本书能对JSON与REST作进一步分析将会更胜一筹。
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