SYS-CON Events announced today that Nexaweb has been named the "Gold Sponsor" AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East.

Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions enable businesses to deploy Richer, Thinner, Faster applications over the Web. Specifically, applications built with Nexaweb deliver the high performance and robust functionality of client/server software with the universal reach, no-install deployment and centralized management of browser-based applications. With Nexaweb, developers can build enterprise-strength RIA solutions using Ajax and Java that access legacy, Web services, and SOA technologies in a unified declarative XML development environment. And only Nexaweb’s comprehensive Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions are backed by an established methodology and reference architecture proven by more than 5,000 successful global deployments. To learn more about Nexaweb’s Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions visit: http://www.nexaweb.com.

Earlier this week SYS-CON Events announced the other "charter sponsors" of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East, which included; Laszlo Systems (Diamond Sponsor), JackBe (Platinum Sponsor), Google (Gold Sponsor), Sun Microsystems (Silver Sponsor), Parasoft (Silver Sponsor), Lightstreamer (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor),  IT Mill (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor), and FrogLogic (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor).

Visual AJAX - Combining Open Source Projects to Achieve Ease-of-Development
AJAXWorld will also presenta session by Nexaweb founder and CTO Couch Wei. AJAX is powerful, but it is not easy: there are significant development and maintenance challenges. This session will present how AJAX can be dramatically simplified by combing community projects together, eventually achieving visual drag-and-drop development. There are a wide variety of community initiatives related to AJAX, including the OpenAjax Alliance, a wide variety of AJAX toolkits, declarative AJAX frameworks and AJAX development tooling. The session will explore how AJAX toolkits can help AJAX development and how declarative frameworks can be layered on top of AJAX toolkits to further simplify coding. For example, how declarative AJAX enables developers that don’t have sophisticated JavaScript/DHTML skills to develop sophisticated AJAX applications. We will then look at how developers can combine some seemingly separate community efforts such as the work at OpenAjax Alliance, Eclipse and Apache to achieve higher productivity. The talk will present a reference open-source stack for AJAX development and then show how visual tooling can be layered on top of a reference stack to enable visual drag and drop development. In a demo, Wei will show an Eclipse-based visual AJAX development tool that fully integrates Dojo, Eclipse WTP, Eclipse ATF and Apache XAP to obtain the synergy between these projects. Finally, the presentation will demonstrate building an AJAX-based mashup application without writing code in a full drag-and-drop experience. Code and examples will be presented.

Speaker Bio: Coach Wei is Chairman and CTO of Nexaweb technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company. Before founding Nexaweb, he architected and designed software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation. A champion of open source and open standards, Wei is the author of the open source word processor AjaxWord, a committer at Apache XAP project and a member of OpenAjax Alliance steering committee. He's a frequent speaker at industry events and has published in a variety of technical journals. He obtained his master's degree from MIT, holds six patents and maintains “Direct from Web 2.0” blog at http://www.coachwei.com.

First International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo which took place on October 1-3, 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, Calfornia was sponsored by Adobe, Amazon, Apress, Backbase, ComponentArt, Cynergy Systems, Google, Helmi Technologies, IBM, ICEsoft, ILOG, Infragistics, JackBe, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, OASIS, Parasoft, Sun Microsystems, telerik, TIBCO, U7 Web Technologies, Visible Measures, Zapatec; including media sponsors AJAX Matters, AJAXWorld Magazine, BZ Media, ColdFusion Developer's Journal, DevtownStation.com, Eclipse Developer's Journal, Eclipse Review, Enterprise Open Source Magazine, Integration Developer News, ITtoolbox.com, Java Developer's Journal, LinuxWorld.com, Methods & Tools, Network World, Open Enterprise Trends, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, SD Times, Software Test & Performance, SOA Web Services Journal, SYS-CON.TV, Web 2.0 Journal, and Web Developer's & Designer's Journal.