Developing Featherweight Web Services with JavaScript

Welcome!

Preface

1. Cover: Developing Featherweight Web Services with JavaScript
2. Introduction & purpose
3. Example services in this manual
4. Publisher’s page

Chapters

1. Featherweight web services
2. Remotely called JavaScript with local configuration
3. Pangrams for typographers
4. Pangrams in action
5. Passing JavaScript arguments via the src attribute
6. Configurable greeking
7. greeking.js in action
8. Object orientating and prototypes
9. Args()
10. Query catching for fun and profit
11. Using JS code libraries
12. On target with WhiskerBiscuit
13. WhiskerBiscuit in action

Appendix

1. Custom and extended object classes
2. Major changes and errata
3. Brief survey of JS web services
4. Unfinished and proof of concept services
5. Bibliography and recommened resources
6. Licenses and terms of use
7. About the author

This is version 0.57b of this manual. It is a beta version with some gaps. We are grateful for feedback.

The code is the manual has not yet been fully tested against Internet Explorer. Bug reports are welcome.