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Five Common Ajax Anti-Patterns
Jack Herrington has written about common pitfalls in Ajax code, calling out five specific problems he sees often enough to consider anti-patterns: Polling on a timer when you don't need to, not inspecting the return results in the callback, passing complex XML when HTML would be better, and more.
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Choosing an Ajax Framework
Sebastian Just has written about how to select an Ajax framework. He lists a number of questions that architects should answer in helping them narrow down the list of available frameworks, including community and corporate support, learning curve, and whether it fits the type of user the site has.
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OpenLaszlo 4.0 Released with Flash and DHTML/Ajax Support
Laszlo Systems has announced the release of OpenLaslzo 4.0. OpenLaszlo is an open source RIA platform that allows developers to compile and target their applications to either an Ajax or Flash runtime.
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Using Spring with GWT and J2S
Google Web Toolkit and Java2Script Pacemaker (J2S) are two Java to JavaScript compilers that enable rich internet applications to be written in Java with JavaScript generated. Recent articles describe how to integrate these tools with Spring.
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Dojo Offline demo released with API
Brad Neuberg has released a screencast of a web-based word processor running on Dojo Offline. At the same time, the Javascript API is being released and is ready for evaluation.
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Article: Rich Office Client Applications
There is a client platform that's already present on nearly every user's desktop, one which provides an amazing amount of power and flexibility in its user interface options, and provides a familiar user-interactive style that undergoes intensive study with every release. Ted Neward introduces the Microsoft Office platform as a rich client technology with examples of Excel - Java integration.
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Interview with Ajaxian.com's Dion Almaer
In this interview Ajaxian cofounder Dion Almaer talks about the state of Ajax development today. Among the items he discusses are the history of how Ajax came to be, which frameworks he recommends developers consider, and tooling/debuggins support. Almaer also talks about security and general design considerations that need to be respected when creating Ajax enabled applications.
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Interview: Walt Ritscher at VSLive
InfoQ sat down with Walt Ritscher at VSLive Toronto to talk about WPF, Web 2.0, and Microsoft code naming conventions. Walt prophecies where he thinks WPF excels and who will build the killer apps in WPF. Included is a quick history on AJAX, where to use it and why it took 7 years to become relevant. Walt also shares his new favorite Windows technology, Windows PowerShell.
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Interview: Rails and JavaScript Wizards
Thomas Fuchs, author of the massively popular Scriptaculous JavaScript library and Michael Buffington, well-known Rails programmer and author of the surprise hit online-game Unroll (llor.nu) have a casual conversation with Obie Fernandez about the power of mixing JavaScript with Ruby on Rails and smart development.
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Visual Studio 2007 Preview
Do you wonder what will be in the next edition of Visual Studio? MSDN's Showtime has a copy of the TechEd presentation on the upcoming "Orcas" release. Highlights include framework multi-targeting, rich CSS support, enhanced JavaScript Intellisense and debugging.
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ASP.NET AJAX Released: Will AJAX Finally Be Popular On ASP.NET?
According to the annual survey conducted in September by Ajaxian.com, ASP.NET developers lagged behind other AJAX-enabled implementations. With the release of ASP.NET AJAX, that is all set to change.
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Dion Hinchliffe: Eleven Emerging Ideas for SOA Architects in 2007
"Web 2.0" expert Dion Hinchcliffe elaborates on eleven ideas he considers valuable for SOA architects in 2007, most of them connected to merging Web 2.0 and "classical" SOA concepts.
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Turning Java into Javascript with J2S
Interface21's Ben Alex has recently been examining Java2Javascript Pacemaker (J2S). J2S includes a Java to Javascript compiler along with support for standard Java packages such as java.lang, java.io and java.util.
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Script.aculo.us, Dojo, GWT, Flex Leads Presenting at QCon
The Ajax & Browser-based applications track at QCon has been defined. Hosted by InfoQ Editor & ClientJava.com's Scott Delap, the full day track will feature presentations from Thomas Fuchs (creator of Script.aculo.us), Alex Russell (co-founder, Dojo Toolkit), Bruce Johnson (Lead, Google Web Toolkit), Christophe Conraets (Lead, Adobe Flex), and Dave Crane (Author, Ajax Patterns).
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Eclipse Foundation joins JCP, OMG, and OSGi Alliance
Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, has announced that they are joining the Java Community Process. At the same time they are joining the Object Management Group (OMG) and the OSGi Alliance. They're also working towards joining ObjectWeb and OpenAjax.