A man will die, but not his ideas.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
AJAX Invasion!!!
Since I first heard about it and understood how it works and what it is capable of doing, I was amazed. How couldn't I?! A simple, yet very powerful, idea that will really bring the Web to our desktops and bridge the gap between "desktop" applications and "Web" applications. But I never imagined that how fast
AJAX (shorthand for
Asynchronous
JavaScript
And
XML) is spreading. Just
look at how many AJAX frameworks are available today (and for different programming languages too). And it's not just about Google and its
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) anymore.
There's even an
AJAX Toolkit Framework (ATF) project at
Eclipse.org which provides and extensible framework and exemplary tools for building IDEs for the many different AJAX runtime offerings (Dojo, Zimbra, Rico, etc) in the market. And of course, as always, Java has a nice share in all of this. One of the great AJAX Java frameworks I've seen (and I haven't seen them all) is
Echo2 from
NextApp. I won't talk about it. I'll just leave with a
link to an
Echo2 demo application. And for all you Java developers (like me) out there,
here's a nice AJAX FAQ at
java.net.
I guess
Web 2.0 is really closer than we think. But before you jump into using AJAX, it is recommended that you read
this post in
Alex Bosworth's Weblog first.
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