In this upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo session (March 19-21, in New York City), delegates will learn that many business developers want to start using AJAX by enhancing the forms in their existing applications. This presentation will demonstrate how to quickly and easily add AJAX capabilities to standard HTML forms using the Dojo toolkit. This talk is for developers who want to enpower their forms quickly with a minimal learning curve. We'll cover client-side validations, validations on the server without a page refresh, and adding specialized Dojo widgets to forms for selecting dates and providing a rich text editor. Relevent features of Dojo .4 will also be discussed. Students will walk away with practical examples for adding AJAX capabilities to their forms.

Speaker Bio: James Harmon is a lead instructor with Object Training Group in Chicago. He is an experienced developer and has spent a majority of his career building large-scale online applications at Accenture and at several Web-centric consulting firms. He now specializes in training Java developers to be more productive by using the latest technologies and frameworks. Jim has provided training for Fortune 500 companies and large private and governmental organizations including Knight Ridder Newspapers and the State of Wisconsin. He lectures extensively throughout the United States and Canada.

Membership
To date, more than 50 organizations have joined the OpenAjax Alliance, including:

Adobe Ajaxian American Greetings (AG/Interactive) Backbase BEA Bling Software Borland Curl Dojo Foundation Eclipse Foundation edge IPK eLink Business Innovations ENOVIA MatrixOne Fair Isaac Finetooth The Front Side Google IBM ICEsoft Ikivo ILOG IN2 Innoopract Intel IT MILL JackBe

Javeline JWAX Laszlo Systems Merced Systems Mozilla Corporation Nexaweb Nitobi Novell OpenLink Software Openwave Systems Opera Oracle Red Hat SAP Scalix Seagull Software Sitepen Software AG Sun Microsystems Tibco Vertex Logic Vircom Webtide XML11 Zend Zimbra Zoho

The first international AJAXWorld Conference & Expo which took place on October 2 - 4, 2006, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA is sponsored by Adobe, Amazon, Apress, Backbase, ComponentArt, Cynergy Systems, Google, Helmi Technologies, IBM, ICEsoft, ILOG, Infragistics, JackBe, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, OASIS, Parasoft, Sun Microsystems, telerik, TIBCO, U7 Web Technologies, Visible Measures, Zapatec; including media sponsors AJAX Matters, AJAXWorld Magazine, BZ Media, ColdFusion Developer's Journal, DevtownStation.com, Eclipse Developer's Journal, Eclipse Review, Enterprise Open Source Magazine, Integration Developer News, ITtoolbox.com, Java Developer's Journal, LinuxWorld.com, Methods & Tools, Network World, Open Enterprise Trends, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, SD Times, Software Test & Performance, SOA Web Services Journal, SYS-CON.TV, Web 2.0 Journal, and Web Developer's & Designer's Journal.