The xsdb framework provides a flexible and well defined infrastructure to allow tabular data to be published, retrieved, and combined over the Internet.

The following are some books that are useful for programming xsdb or implementing other AJAX or related web based applications. [By following these links to purchase the books you will help support this web site.]

	Flanagan's book is a required reference for serious javascript programming. Unfortunately it doesn't talk about AJAX or even some of the javascript services you need to use to implement AJAX.
	AJAX In Action has lots of useful code and even some useful information about implementing AJAX applications. It also has a lot of fluff and they get sidetracked on general programming technique, which distracts from the AJAX focus. I also found it irritating when they write about "refactoring" where old fogeys like me would say "structured programming" instead. This does not work as a stand alone reference: you need Flanagan's book also, as well as other sources of information about server side programming -- AJAX is complicated.
	Most interesting Web applications (including AJAX) require some server side code. I like using Python and CGI scripts for this purpose. Learning Python is a good place to start learning about python...
	Java is also useful for server side programming. This is a required reference for java.
	C# is also useful for server side programming. If you get the MS development environment you have good library references already, but "Intro to C#" is a good introduction.
	To do real web programming these days you need to understand XML. This book is useful to keep handy.
	XSLT is a popular way to reformat XML data files (typically into HTML).
	You will probably also want this book of XSLT examples.