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Using SketchFlow to Create Better Prototypes

All good developers use some kind of prototyping as a communication channel to customers. Simon Guest of Microsoft introduces a new technology from Microsoft, SketchFlow, and shows how it could be useful to developers as well as the primary audience of designers. The discussion covers coverage (WPF and Silverlight), functionality, workflow, prototyping, and documentation.

Simon Guest
on Apr 29, 2009
JavaScript Test Driven Development with JsUnit and JSMock

This article is a crash course in writing maintainable JavaScript. We'll add features to a running example by iteratively following a simple principle: write a unit test, make it pass. Each test will serve as a quality feedback loop, creating both a safety net and an executable form of documentation for anyone who wants to change the production code.

Dennis Byrne
on Feb 09, 2009
Your First Cup of Web 2.0 - A Quick Look at jQuery, Spring MVC, and XStream/Jettison

Refreshing the web page every time data is requested from the server is annoying for the users. Joel Confino shows how existing web pages can be tweaked to request data via AJAX without refreshing the page, by using jQuery, a JavaScript library, which involves minimal changes to existing code.

Joel Confino
on Sep 15, 2008
Introducing Multithreaded Programming to JavaScript

While increasingly more websites are fully or partially based on AJAX, it is still difficult to develop complicated AJAX applications. What is the main issue which causes this difficulty in developing AJAX applications? Is it asynchronous communication with the server, or is it GUI programming? How can a multithreading JavaScript library help to ease some of these issues?

Daisuke Maki translated by Daisuke Maki
on Jul 10, 2008
High Performance Ajax with GWT

In a new article Ryan Dewsbury takes a look at how GWT assists developers in terms of Ajax performance by providing image bundling, caching, and application compression. It also includes an excerpt from Dewsbury's book, Google Web Toolkit Applications.

Ryan Dewsbury
on Mar 04, 2008
Interview: Didier Girard, are GWT and Volta GCC for the Web?

Microsoft released a preview of Volta last month. Many people have commented on this new technology and the concept of Architecture Factoring. Some have compared Volta with GWT. InfoQ interviewed Didier Girard, CTO of SFEIR, who has lead the development of several GWT projects and reviewed Volta recently.

Jean-Jacques Dubray
on Jan 21, 2008
Creating dynamic web applications with JSF/DWR/DOJO

JSF, DWR, and Dojo are all popular technologies in their own right. Integrating them into a portal environment can prove an intimidating exercise however. This article looks at how one developer implemented such a solution using custom JSF components.

Ashish Sarin
on Oct 04, 2007
Testing Ajax Applications with Selenium

The Selenium develompent team briefly introduces Selenium, a web acceptance testing tool, and shows how to test Ajax applications with waitForXxxx Selenium commands, as well as how to test a simple Ajax effect - an asynchronous text update - with Selenium.

Mike Williams Josh Price Jeff Xiong
on Sep 25, 2006
Agile: The SOA Hangover Cure

Author Carl Ververs who is an expert on SOA Integration and Distributed Systems writes about the application of "Agile" development philosophies that ensures that organizations can overcome architectural paralysis and get moving on those important SOA projects, while at the same time ensuring that the architecture is sufficiently flexible and adaptable for future growth.

Carl Ververs
on Jul 31, 2006