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Dojo Custom Widget Tutorial

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

In my effort to evaluate Dojo performance, I am going to build a custom Dojo widget and create my own build profile so that only the absolutely required files for my application are packaged into the initial download. However, considering the real world best practice, I would create my own ...

Apache XAP Release

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Bob Buffone sent out this annoucement to Apache mailing list related to XAP: The Apache XAP Team (XAP is an open source Ajax project at Apache Incubator) is pleased to announce the release of the 0.3.0 of its Declarative Ajax toolkit. Downloads of the project can be found at http://incubator.apache.org/xap/download.html Project ...

Is Ajax Deprecating Client Side Java?

Monday, December 11th, 2006

The Ajax wildfire makes many people constantly think about what impact it has on other technologies such as Java, Flash and .NET. Are application developers going to switch from other technologies to Ajax? I explored this subject with regard to Flash in my earlier post The Converging Developer Community - AJAX ...

OpenAjax Update - Addressing Key Challenges for Ajax Adoption

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

OpenAjax Alliance had its 2nd face to face meeting on Oct 5th and 6th at Sun Microsystem’s office in Santa Clara, CA after the AjaxWorld Conference. While paying close attention to confidentiality concerns, I feel comfortable sharing some of my thoughts and reactions. In particular, I am sharing some of my thoughts on the ...

The Converging Developer Community - AJAX to Overtake Flash

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

At AjaxWorld Conference and OpenAjax Alliance back to back meetings in Santa Clara, CA this week, it has been hard not to think about the developer community and how Web 2.0 is impacting it today. Web development can be roughly divided into two camps: Web site development; Web application development; "Web site development" is ...

OpenAjax is Officially Open Now

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

I am excited that OpenAjax Alliance is officially open now. Over the last months, we have worked very hard and have made some incredible progress, depsite the heterogeneous nature of many different members representing different viewpoints. One person that definitely deserves credit for getting us to where we are today ...

Two Key Challenges for Ajax Adoption that We Have Ignored

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

There are some fairly big issues with Ajax and I am puzzled. I think the Ajax community need to pay more attention here in order for Ajax to be really adopted. Before i get into the negatives about Ajax, let me clarify my position about Ajax first. Yes, there are ...

Apache XAP - The New Approach to Ajax (1)

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

XAP is up and running at Apache (under Apache Incubator)... It's initial website is at: http://incubator.apache.org/xap. For those who are really brave, feel free to participate xap-dev@incubator.apache.org for discussions/suggestions/comments, or dig into source repositary. Why XAP and What Is The Value of Declarative Ajax? XAP represents a new way of developing, deploying ...

OpenAjax

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

The mission of OpenAjax Alliance is to advance adoption of Ajax technologies. This is accomplished by: Preserving the mutli-browser and multip-platform value proposition of the web Leveraging  open standards and open source to increase overall interoperabilty of Ajax based solutions Decreasing the rsik and total cost to adopter of delivering compelling user experiences. OpenAjax ...

Declarative Ajax and The next stage of Ajax

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Ajax has certainly caught the attention of everyone. Signficant amount of progress has been made in the last 10 to 12 months. As of today, there are probably over 100 Ajax toolkits/frameworks (some are open source, some are close source). On the one side, it is truely amazing and exciting ...

RIA Solutions and The Converging RIA Programming Model (Article 3)

Friday, May 5th, 2006

This is the third post of Enterprise Rich Internet Application Series. RIA Solutions Today There are many RIA solutions available today. Each of them fits into one of the approaches mentioned above. Some of the solutions come with tooling that can simplify development and maintenance. The following table shows a list ...

Enterprise Rich Internet Application:Ajax, Java, Flash,.NET and Market Landscape (1)

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

This is the first post of Enterprise Rich Internet Application Series. Welcome to a New Paradigm The Web began as an environment for content sharing and small-scale data transfer via e-mail, newsgroups, and so forth. These initial uses quickly led to more sophisticated applications, particularly in the ...