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VistaFei Brings GUI Editing to Google Web Toolkit
Wirelexsoft has announced VistaFei, an Eclipse-based visual GUI editor for Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT UI's can be built using drag and drop from a Palette controls and WYSIWYG editing area. VistaFei provides more than 35 elements in the palette covering most developer's needs for AJAX application design.
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Ajax for JSF: ICEFaces Enterprise Edition 1.0
ICEsoft has released version 1.0 of ICEFaces Enterprise Edition. ICEFaces extends JavaServer Faces (JSF) allowing developers to write AJAX style web applications in pure Java without having to use Javascript. ICEFaces provides an Ajax Push technology that allows server changes to be "pushed" to browser based clients without traditional polling techniques.
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AJAX, JPA, and JSF Articles Added to Java BluePrints Catalog
The Java BluePrints Catalog available on Java.net has been updated with new writeups on JSF, AJAX, and JavaEE 5 Persistence.
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Google Web Toolkit Continues Gaining Momentum
XML.com and IBM DeveloperWorks recently featured articles introducingweb application development using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT was released at JavaOne in May of this year. Support of GWT has also recently been announced by both the IntelliJ and Netbeans Java IDE's.
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ZK Ajax Java Web Framework: Ajax with no Javascript
The ZK Ajax Framework allows developers to achieve Ajax style UI experiences in web applications without having to code in Javascript. Leveraging both a client and server engine, ZK enables developers to code the interaction of their UI's in pure Java.
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Atlas June CTP Released
Microsoft has released a new Community Tech Preview (CTP) of Atlas, Microsoft's AJAX framework for ASP.NET. Note that Atlas can also be used with other web technoloogies such as PHP or ColdFusion via the Atlas client-script libraries.
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Adobe launches Flex 2 RIA platform; Flex SDK is now free
Adobe has released Flex 2, its platform for ajax-style enterprise rich internet application development that runs on Flash, whose version 9 now includes Just-In-Time compiler. The Flex 2 is now free for developing and deploying Flex apps on the Flash runtime. An Eclipse-based IDE and enterprise messaging/data connectivity featuring real time messaging is also available for enterprise customers.
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OpenLaszlo Legals Preview Compiles to DHTML
The OpenLaszlo project has had a lot of attention in the Java community, being one of the first solutions for building rich internet applications via compiling XML apps into Flash SWF files. OpenLaszlo has released their first preview of OpenLaszlo Legals which can now compile RIA apps into DHTML.
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Real World Apps with Atlas Codecamp Video Published
Wrox author Wally McClure, was a featured speaker at Atlanta Code Camp on May 13, 2006, and presented a 43-minute, on-screen demo of building an Atlas application, that is now available for viewing. The video gives a good introduction of what is possible with Atlas.
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Sun backs Dojo Ajax Toolkit; Joins OpenAjax Alliance
Sun has joined the Dojo foundation, as IBM did a couple of weeks ago. Sun has already been working with Dojo on the Java Pet Store (which is based on Dojo), and project Maki uses Dojo. Sun has also joined the OpenAjax Alliance.
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Beautiful JavaScript Windows and Dialogs for your Application
French expert user-interface programmer Sebastien Gruhier releases latest version of his beautiful Prototype Windows code, based on Prototype and compatible with Scriptaculous effects.
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Jetty Founder Proposes Asynchronous Servlet API
Jetty founder Greg Wilkins has blogged about the need for the Servlet spec to evolve into an asynchronous model in order to, among other things, deal with the new challenges brought on by Ajax. Greg proposes standardizing a coordinator which could be called by the container in response to asynchronous event and would coordinate the call of the synchronous service method.