Sun Microsystems’ Sang Shin is starting a free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX.

In this 10-week course, students start with a lecture and a hands-on lab in which the basic concept of AJAX and the core technologies - JavaScript, CSS, DOM, and XMLHttpRequest - that make up the AJAX are discussed and exercised. The workflow of AJAX operation is also discussed in detail using an example code.

This will be followed with AJAX toolkits and frameworks, Dojo, JSON, DWR, JSF/AJAX integration, jMaki and AJAX-fied JavaServer Faces (JSF) components. Finally, the AJAX development tools such as JavaScript debugger (especially FireBug), DOM inspector, logging tool are discussed.

Each lecture is followed by a hands-on lab session. The hands-on labs use NetBeans IDE 5.0 or 5.5 beta.

The pre-requisites to joining are 1 month Java programming experience and 1 month web application programming experience.

In order to register for this course, all prospective participants have to do is send an email to ajaxworkshop-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.