Laszlo's David Temkin, Dojo's Dylan Schiemann, SYS-CON's Dion Hinchcliffe, IBM's David Boloker & Adam Peller, Douglas Crockford of JSON, Nexaweb's Coach Wei, TIBCO GI's Kevin Hakman, JackBe's Luis Derechin & John Crupi, Charles Fiesel of Roundarch, Oracle's Jonas Jacobi and his coauthor John Fallows - all converge June 5-6 in New York to deliver the next installment in the "Real-World AJAX" series of seminars, this time in an extended, two-day version that promises to map not just the present of AJAX but also its fast-emerging future.

In his opening "AJAX Patterns Design Survey," AjaxWorld Magazine editor-in-chief Dion Hinchcliffe will discuss how DHTML was created to enable form validation, not full-fledged GUIs but how nonetheless AJAX/DHTML will be one of the primary application development models going forward, at least for the forseeable future.

Using the "design patterns" metaphor of Scott Isaacs - i.e., "common, recurring problems" - Hinchcliffe will briefly examine at least 66 of them, including Display Manipulation; Web Remoting; Dynamic Behaviour; Web Services, and Performance Optimization (for example, the Fat Client pattern).

David Boloker, IBM's CTO Emerging Technologies - joined by Adam Peller, Senior Engineer, IBM Software Group - will next discuss what OpenAJAX is and how it will grow AJAX adoption to the next phase. Additionally, David and Adam will discuss what the Eclipse Ajax Tooling Framework is by demonstrating it using multiple AJAX Runtime Toolkits and then talking about possible future work that IBM will be bringing forward inside Eclipse.

Oracle's Jonas Jacobi and his cauthor John R. Fallows address JavaServer Faces and AJAX next. Can a client-side AJAX solution and server-side Faces solution co-exist and play well together? Or are they each solving a similar problem in a different and incompatible way?

As joint authors of Pro JSF and Ajax, Jacobi and Fallows are well qualified to discuss how the JavaServer Faces framework can be used to embrace AJAX today, while protecting Web applications from radical re-architecture each time there is a change in direction of client-side technology. They will address the key aspects of Faces component development, and will introduce innovative techniques to adopt AJAX. Jonas and John will cover many issues that developers encounter when building AJAX-enabled JSF components, and they will discuss how best to leverage AJAX to create extremely interactive rich Internet components.

The creator of JSON is up next, Yahoo! architect Douglas Crockford. JSON is a universal data format that provides an uncommonly effective bridge for moving data between systems and between languages. It is rendering the X in AJAX superfluous, Crockford will argue. JSON is also really simple. This talk will spend several seconds to fully explain the entire JSON language. There will also be a first look at a new JSON solution to the Cross Domain Problem.

Dojo co-founder Dylan Schiemann takes the stage after Crockford, to present on how AJAX and comet are great techniques for getting data to and from the server, but do little to address the requirements of sophisticated web application user interfaces. Cross-component interactions, synchronization, state management and other requirements for such applications, Schiemann will explain, may be solved through an event-driven approach. Dojo and other toolkits significantly extend the browser-provided event models (usually limited to the DOM) to include method-to-method connections, topic/publish/subscribe models, aspect-oriented programming advice, and other advanced event techniques. Schiemann's talk will compare event models across popular toolkits, and provide examples for several real-world application interface development use cases.

Web 2.0 Working Group member Ajit Jaokar, in his session on The Impact of Web 2.0/AJAX on Mobile Applications, will show how AJAX and Web 2.0 have the power to truly transform the Mobile Internet. The session is going to discuss how Web 2.0/AJAX can be used to overcome the issue of ‘walled gardens’ on the Mobile Internet and how developers can develop mobile apps to overcome the technological/market fragmentation on the mobile internet and thus gain a larger target audience for their application. Jaokar will also examine why browsing applications (incorporating AJAX) will be the preferred method of mobile applications development.

All this comes just in Day One of the  "Real-World AJAX" Two-Day Seminar in New York June 5-6, at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan.


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