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Stephan Janssen On Parleys.com And The RIA Landscape
InfoQ.com sat down with Stephan Janssen to learn about Parleys.com and ask his perspective on the emerging RIA platforms. Stephan is the founder of the JavaPolis conference held annually in Belgium. JavaPolis is currently the second largest Java conference, behind only JavaOne.
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OASIS Symposium: Composability within SOA
OASIS is going to hold a 3 day symposium on the topic of "Composability within SOA" in Santa Clara, CA from April 28th to April 30th. Engineers and Scientists from vendors and end-user companies will discuss topics including mashups, Service-Oriented Ajax, SCA, BPEL, SDO, BPM, Web Service Transactions, Data Security in SOA, SOA Reference Architecture...
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Interview: Joe Walker about DWR 3.0
InfoQ had the opportunity to talk with the <a href="http://getahead.org/dwr">DWR</a> (Direct Web Remoting) project lead <a href="http://getahead.org/blog/joe/" title="Joe Walker's Blog">Joe Walker</a>. He discussed the upcoming release of DWR 3.0 including major features, helpful features and fixes for developers, a time line and a look at the future of DWR.
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GWT-Ext 2.0 Released: An Interview with Sanjiv Jivan
GWT-Ext 2.0 was released on February 6th, integrating with GWT 1.4 and ExtJS 2.0. Changes in the 2.0 release include performance improvements, a unified component model, new layout management APIs, and several new widgets.
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Studying JavaScript Performance
Performance issues can always be an unexpected gotcha when developing your latest and greatest web 2.0 application, and a lot of times performance problems surface through the most benign of operations. Recently Coach Wei has taken the task of doing a quick study of the cost of many different Javascript operations as well as the differences in performance across browsers.
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Further Insights into Rhino on Rails
Dion Almaer has published a podcast of his interview with Steve Yegge, the creator of Rhino on Rails. Rhino on Rails is a Javascript port of the popular Ruby on Rails framework. It is currently under active development for internal use at Google. Steve Yegge and his team hope to make Rhino on Rails open source this summer.
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Apache Tuscany Java 1.1 Released: SCA Meets Web 2.0
The Apache Tuscany team announced today the 1.1 release of the Java SCA project which adds a number of features including a JMS binding or improved policy support. It also supports an implementation extension for representing client side Javascript applications as SCA components which makes SCA a viable technology to simplify Ajax style implementations using JSONRPC or Atom bindings for instance.
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ExtJS Ecosystem Continues to Expand
New server-side tools are sprouting up around the ExtJS client-side Javascript framework. Community developed server-side support now exists for Java Enterprise Edition, Cold Fusion 8.0, Google Web Toolkit, and Ruby on Rails 2.0. The goal of all of these tools is to normalize the interface between their respective platforms and ExtJS.
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Interview: Didier Girard, are GWT and Volta GCC for the Web?
Microsoft released a preview of Volta last month. Some people have commented that Volta was a direct competitor to GWT. InfoQ talked to Didier Girard, CTO of SFEIR and GWT expert to ask him how they compare and share his perspective on what they represent for developers.
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How-to Make your AJAX Applications Scream on the Client
AJAX is hot, no one will argue, but what is often the case is your Web 2.0 applications don't perform as well as you had hoped. Learn how a few simple optimizations can help.
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Who needs GWT On Rails?
Rails and GWT are both hiding Javascript manipulation from the Ajax development cycle. GWT chose to solve that by using a compiler which will convert Java into browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML. By using GWT On Rails plugin and its Client generator, you'll be able to make GWT Client communicate with Rails.
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Interview: Bruce Johnson discusses Google Web Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) tech lead Bruce Johnson discusses the design of GWT, how GWT converts Java into JavaScript, community involvement with GWT, new features in GWT 1.4, and the philosophy behind GWT.
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Adding Ajax Support to the ASP.NET MVC Framework
The official CTP release of the ASP.NET MVC Framework does not include any support for AJAX, yet. In the meantime there are several samples available, which show how to add AJAX features to ASP.NET MVC applications.
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DWR: State of the Union
There is a lot going on in the DWR world: DWR joining the Dojo Foundation; Joe Walker, creator of DWR, joining SitePen, Ltd. as Director of Support and Development; and an announcement of the features that are expected to be part of DWR 3.0.
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ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP - ASP.NET MVC, Data Services, Dynamic Data and Silverlight Support
Yesterday, Microsoft published the long-awaited first ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP (Customer Technology Preview). The extensions package includes the ASP.NET MVC Framework, AJAX improvements, Dynamic Data support, Silverlight support, and ADO.NET Data Services.