March 2009 - Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols, and Practices, 2nd Edition now available

The second edition of the book has been published and is now available in Europe. Availability date for the U.S. is May 2009, but the book can still be pre-ordered now from online booksellers like Amazon.com. The new edition contains major updates including:

• Internet protocols - from TCP/IP to HTTP and beyond
• software components - servers, browsers, proxies and agents
• the dynamic web - how web applications present dynamic data
• extended coverage of markup languages – HTML, XML and CSS
• tools, libraries and frameworks - Struts, Ruby on Rails, and AJAX toolkits
• search technologies – underlying principles, application design, and SEO
• future directions and emerging technologies – XML Query, RDF, and the Semantic Web