Come see a no-slides, code-only presentation that starts with a blank directory and builds a data-driven, AJAX enabled, ASP.NET web application from scratch that implements common AJAX patterns with the rich set of AJAX Control Toolkit, accesses data with LINQ, and implements standards-based styling and layout using CSS and clean HTML. Learn the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and how they integrate together to provide the world's most productive web development experience. This talk uses the 100% free .NET Framework and Visual Studio tools and the resulting application will work with all browsers, Safari, Firefox and of course IE. Register for AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo Submit Your Paper to Present a Session Sponsor AJAXWorld Conference & Expo Speaker Bio: Brad Abrams is currently the Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Se... (more)

ClearNova's Steve Benfield Discusses AJAX

Steve Benfield discussed AJAX--what it is, why it's popular, what developers can create with it--in an interview with SYS-CON.TV recently. Benfield is VP/Strategy for ClearNova, which is based in the Atlanta area and focuses on "rapid application platforms and expertise to help companies quickly deliver robust web-based business applications." The company's flagship product, ThinkCAP, is the company's way of addressing what it calls "the absolute need to build systems quickly and efficiently--without sacrificing functionality or openness." Benfield was previously CTO of SilverStream Software and helped drive their early leadership in Web Services and eventual acquisition by Novell, Inc. He is a much-sought writer and speaker and has published numerous articles on application development, services-oriented architectures, IT trends, and development techniques. During th... (more)

Exadel CEO Fima Katz Announces AJAX Support at LinuxWorld

Exadel, Inc. announced that Exadel Founder and CEO Fima Katz will present at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston. Exadel is one of the software companies offering AJAX support in its product line. Katz’s session, entitled “Industrializing IT – How Will Components Based Development Affect the Enterprise?” will take place on Thursday, April 6, at 10:15 a.m. at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The presentation will explore next-generation approaches to business application development including a detailed overview of how software developers can build systems from pre-built components that are easy to deploy, develop, customize and test. “Components-based development is a revolutionary approach to application development and one that will fundamentally improve development team productivity,” said Katz. “Exadel... (more)

JJAX: Asynchronous Cross-Domain Scripting

While AJAX has been a great leap forward, the major limitation is that it can only talk to the domain on which it is loaded. This is directly opposed to one of the other major Web 2.0 initiatives, namely interoperability. This presentation will explore how using JSON can push Web 2.0 further by creating fully portable, pure HTML modules that can reside on any Web page. Speaker Bio: Zeki Mokhtarzada co-founded Freewebs.com in 2001, and he now serves as CTO and sits on the board of directors. As CTO and head of Freewebs’ engineering team, he is the architect behind the scalable Freewebs back end and server architecture supporting tens of millions of visitors. Prior to co-founding Freewebs, he was employee number one at WebOS, where he was instrumental in some of the leading-edge innovations in the on-demand applications space. Zeki double-majored in mathematics an... (more)

AJAX SOA Stack Session at AJAXWorld

The way we built Web applications yesterday is rapidly changing. As a developer, you now need a new set of baseline skills to keep up amidst a plethora of XML, SOAP, JSON, and other types of information services which are being exposed, consumed, mashed up and processed in new and innovative ways. And it’s happening not just with Google and craigslist, but also within businesses of all sizes. In this session, TIBCO’s director of product strategy and management, Matt Quinn, will discuss these new Web architectures and how you can evolve the classic three-tier Web application model toward a full service-oriented application stack complete with AJAX Rich Internet Application GUIs to deliver a new generation of more powerful, more scalable, and more richly featured Web applications. Speaker Bio: Matt Quinn heads product strategy and product management for TI... (more)

AJAX Solutions Provider ICEsoft Joins BEA Partner Program

(SYS-CON Media) - ICEsoft Technologies, provider of enterprise AJAX solutions, announced that it has become a Select Software Partner in the BEA Partner Program. ICEfaces offers features designed to optimize its support for BEA WebLogic Server, and ICESoft’s project to integrate the ICEfaces package with BEA Workshop Studio will help BEA customers to not only develop state-of-the-art rich web applications using these two familiar BEA products, but also to readily deploy those applications to clustered WebLogic application servers. ICEfaces is a rich Internet technology that is designed to deliver Thin Client AJAX, helping to enable Java developers to easily create and deploy thin-client rich web applications using standard Java and JSF (JavaServer Faces) techniques without the need for JavaScript programming. With ICEfaces, application logic can be completely ... (more)

Kapow's CEO on AJAX and Web 2.0 Mashups

Now that collaborative, decentralized development is the norm, how do you harness the ability to "mashup" data sources? What's happening in the industry? What's the motivation for a business to start serving mashups from the "long tail" of the Web? These and other questions were asked and answered yesterday by Stefan Andreasen, CEO and Founder of Kapow Technologies Danish-born Andreasen's principal contention is that mashups address the long tail of automation within a company. Companies can achieve incredible efficiencies through empowering their employees to get to Web-based data in a more ad hoc way. Mashups created by individuals can be fostered through giving them acees to the data they need and allowing them to combine it automatically, rather than keep everything centralized. Andreasen has more than 20 years experience in software design and development. He ... (more)

Google: "Microsoft's Hostile Bid for Yahoo! Raises Troubling Questions"

"Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft...to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?" That's the question raised today in a statement just posted by Google on the Official Google Blog concerning Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! - posted by David Drummond, Google's Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer. Title "Yahoo! and the future of the Internet," Drummond's post appeared at 11:45 PST. "Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions," he writes.  "This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation." He then asks a series of three what-if questions: "Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet tha... (more)

A New Approach to Java Clients

The Rich Internet Application marketplace has changed a lot since the early days, when there were only a handful of players and the options for building applications were limited to HTML, Java or Flash (before Flex existed). HTML was typically the choice for static information portals, while Flash was the choice for more ‘real-time’ applications and/or when animation was a requirement. Once the AJAX wildfire began, the landscape vastly changed and a new option for developing RIAs was now available. Despite the multitude of open source AJAX projects and startups that have emerged in the past few years, AJAX has its limitations as a robust RIA development technique. As for Java, it was considered too difficult based on many factors, including development methodology, styling, server-side integration, size and versioning of JVM, JVM installation, and startup ... (more)

OpenAjax Alliance Announces New Initiatives at AJAXWorld

The OpenAjax Alliance revealed new standards and open source initiatives for secure mashups, AJAX on mobile devices, and a unified browser wish-list from AJAX toolkit suppliers. AJAX is the technology behind most Web 2.0 applications, including the increasingly popular "mashup," a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience, and Web "gadgets," which can be placed into Web pages and social network sites. IBM's Jon Ferraiolo on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, before delivering OpenAjax news announcement at AJAXWorld in New York City The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of vendors, open source projects and companies using AJAX that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable AJAX-based Web technologies. Today from AJAXWorld in New York City, the alliance is announcing a set of coordinated ini... (more)

Evolution of Web 3.0

Web 3.0 is a different way of building applications and interacting on the web. The core model of web 3.0 states that entire World Wide Web will be seen as a single database. Many tools are being developed through which interactivity between different websites with different data can be enhanced. Prediction is that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as web applications which are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics of these applications: they are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, they can run on any device- PC or mobile phone, they are fast and customizable. Furthermore, the applications are distributed virally: literally by social networks or by email. That's a very different application model than we've ever seen in computing. However, there is still considerable debate as to what the term Web 3.0 means, and what a suitable definition might... (more)