Brett McLaughlin has a 5 part series at IBM Developer works that provides a complete introduction to using AJAX technologies in your web applications…
- Part I – Introduction to Ajax
- Part II – Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax
- Part III – Advanced requests and responses in Ajax
- Part IV – Exploiting DOM for Web response
- Part V – Manipulate the DOM
IBM Developer Works: talk about a must-have addition to anyone’s feed reader, or at least any developer who is serious about continually upgrading his skills. Developer Works articles are always written by authorities in their fields, and this one on using AJAX is particularly lengthy and thorough.

