Web 2.0 mashups are real and going mainstream. Come learn how to combine employee expertise and rich information to produce new insights and winning strategies. Learn how your employees can unlock and transform any information into just exactly what's needed to make the best possible decisions. Also learn how IT can help line of business be more self-sufficient while reducing project backlog and maintaining control over security, governance and costs. The presentation will showcase several demonstrations of customers and partners using SOA with mashups to maximize competitiveness.

The absence of JavaScript support in today's search engine crawlers presents a serious SEO dilemma for Websites generating some or all of their content with JavaScript DOM manipulation. A quick glance at a million server headers eaten by Splunk and crawled by Grub shows the severity of the problem. A solution is presented by using a ghosting application in front of the Web server doing source rendering with a third party JavaScript engine library for various crawlers. The solution enables a Website to deliver rendered page content for crawlers, which subsequently increases the site's ranking. Using memcached, a scalable solution is provided for increasing throughput on large or busy sites.

qooxdoo is a comprehensive and innovative open-source Web application framework (http://qooxdoo.org). In this session, you will learn how to leverage object-oriented JavaScript to build professional AJAX applications. No HTML, CSS nor DOM knowledge is needed to create impressive user interfaces for all common Web browsers. qooxdoo's wide array of widgets will be demonstrated as well as the amazing theming capabilities that allow for virtually any look. Its platform-independent tool chain will be introduced that covers features like internationalization, live debugging, source code validation, unit testing, functional testing, profiling, auto-generated API documentation, JavaScript linking, modularizing large-scale applications, migration support and more.

Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript skills to make it happen. AJAX development power tools--including Dreamweaver, Spry and off-the-shelf AJAX components--make it easy to build rich user interfaces in AJAX with no JavaScript coding. Andre Charland will demonstrate how to install, set up and configure extensions to Dreamweaver, and will use them to build simple, rich interface AJAX apps. After this session, even beginner developers will be able to add AJAX interactions to web applications. This session is a must for ambitious, novice and intermediate designers anxious to use AJAX in their applications.

Zapatec announced the launch of its AJAX Events Calendar, a single-page, multi-user solution, providing full desktop functionality in an easy-to-deploy calendaring solution. Developers can now embed the Calendar in any application or purchase it as a software package, a hosted solution or a virtual appliance deployable on Amazon's EC2 cloud.

As AJAX matures as a technology, its use in large applications has increased significantly. But large applications require more extensive amounts of code, which leads to the inevitable performance bottlenecks and memory constraints associated with non-trivial application development. In this session, Bob will provide detailed information on how to performance-tune large AJAX applications using a variety of available tools and techniques.

Syndication has long been a staple of AJAX development, but increasingly syndication languages such as Atom are becoming the primary vectors for more sophisticated data applications, and in the process may make SOAP/WSDL based Web services architectures increasingly obsolete. This session looks at how Atom, AtomPub and AJAX are changing the way that we pass all types of information on the Web.

Leading enterprises rely on declarative AJAX to develop RIAs, enterprise mashups and composite applications. This approach separates the UI from business logic, resulting in faster and more cost-effective application development and maintenance. In this session, attendees will explore the advantages of the markup + POJO approach, covering topics such as: Declarative UI, Declarative modifications, Data binding and Service invocation.

AJAX isn't just for rich UIs and mashups anymore. Web 2.0 has infiltrated the enterprise workforce, and IT departments all around the world just like yours are feeling the pressure to make every back-office, call center, trading blotter, inventory management, and systems performance application look and feel like iGoogle or MyESPN.com. Simply slapping on a few AJAX widgets will make these applications look cooler, but what about business logic, data integration, and replicating the business processes? Join Coach Wei, CTO and founder of Nexaweb, and Bob Buffone, Nexaweb's Chief Architect, for a candid, fast-paced discussion anchored by real-world customer examples demonstrating how you can use AJAX and RIA technology to truly take your business applications to the next level!

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.

Web 2.0 mashups are real and going mainstream. Come learn how to combine employee expertise and rich information to produce new insights and winning strategies. Learn how your employees can unlock and transform any information into just exactly what's needed to make the best possible decisions. Also learn how IT can help line of business be more self-sufficient while reducing project backlog and maintaining control over security, governance and costs. The presentation will showcase several demonstrations of customers and partners using SOA with mashups to maximize competitiveness.

Seam Remoting provides a convenient, AJAX-based client API for interacting with server-side Seam components with very little up-front development effort. This presentation will briefly introduce Seam and describe the features of Seam Remoting, demonstrating how easy it is to write client-side JavaScript code that interacts asynchronously with Seam components, whether they are EJBs or POJOs. It will also describe advanced features of Seam Remoting such as subscribing to a JMS topic from a web page via AJAX.

In this session Jon and Sumeer will describe current work at OpenAjax Alliance on OpenAjax Hub 1.1 and secure mashups. Mashups have the potential for revolutionizing the way Web applications are developed, but there are security risks. In order to unleash the industry, OpenAjax Alliance is adding secure mashup features to its OpenAjax Hub 1.1 release. This new release will include a set of techniques called 'SMash' that were originally developed by IBM Research and allows for secure mashups that run in today's browsers. The session will introduce mashups, OpenAjax Hub, and SMash, and will highlight related OpenAjax work around widget metadata standards.

There are many controls and extenders provided by the AJAX Control Toolkit that can be used to enhance ASP.NET user interfaces. The ValidatorCallout is used with the existing validation controls to show a nice box with the validation message that points to the field in error. The CollapsiblePanel provides an area of the screen that can be collapsed to hide the content but leave a title bar with the header. The ModalPopup displays a popup window and disables the remainder of the page. There are many controls provided which provide a much richer experience for ASP.NET Web sites.

Powerful, unprecedented demographic and economic trends are propelling dramatic long-term growth in the wealth management industry. At the same time, competitive forces are driving rapid productivity gains in wealth management firms. Those firms who leverage information technology (IT) to create business agility will be the clear winners. We believe that IT agility enables business agility, and that software platforms are the key enablers of IT agility. This paper presents actual case studies where Web 2.0 and AJAX applications are being deployed in wealth management firms and summarizes the benefits, challenges and lessons learned.

REST and AJAX are two of the hottest buzzwords in the Web. While one describes an high-level architectural style of creating highly scalable Web applications, the other is used to create innovative and highly-interactive client-side Web applications. With the open source Apache Sling Framework and its integrated AJAX (microjax) library, client side AJAX developers can tap into the power of REST-based architectures powered by enterprise-grade content repositories such as Apache Jackrabbit or Day CRX. Accessing Java Content Repositories via AJAX allows developers accessing all of their organization's content using one simple, lightweight API that nicely weaves into their interactive Web application. This talk introduces REST, JCR and Sling and shows how to use its power using the µsling library.

The Spry framework provides a lightweight, flexible set of tools for building rich user interfaces and integrating XML and JSON data into Web pages. This session will explore the fundamentals of the Spry framework including dynamic datasets, widgets and visual effects, as well as broader tips and tricks for developing engaging, AJAX-based Websites.

Comet is the new kid on the block in the world of RIA and with it comes the promise of streaming HTTP communication - a transport mechanism that allows real-time message delivery to applications that run natively in the browser. However, despite its promise, current implementations of Comet suffer one fatal flaw, scalability. HTTP Multicasting represents one potential solution to the scalability and reliability concerns found in current implementations of Comet. In this session you will learn how to use Enterprise Comet, which leverages HTTP Multicasting to adapt existing Java EE containers to support Comet-style applications serving thousands of concurrent users.

This session will provide ADC member developers with the information they need to get started building native iPhone applications. This session covers the basics from how to set up your development environment to building a basic application (not just a simple hello world, but a real, functioning, practical application), to covering debugging and deployment.

In this session, you'll see first-hand how to use stylesheets and an easy arrangement of divs and spans that will let you make your Web application just like many of the native iPhone applications that come with the phone. You'll see how to do the 'Edge to Edge' and 'Rounded Rectangle' layouts that are the hallmark of native iPhone applications. You'll also see how to use the iPhone's Safari Debug Console to get hints on how to improve your web application as well as point out errors in your HTML and JavaScript. Lastly you'll see how to go from nothing to hosting iPhone/iPod Touch test pages on your Mac laptop in 5 minutes.

If you have not been introduced to the concept of the 'Comet programming', then now is the time to become acquainted. Comet is a revolutionary technology that replaces the old request-response driven Web development model and the use of polling. With this new client-server communication technique, developers can now build real-time Web applications that implement a true event-driven model with little need for third-party plug-ins. But is this a technique for every developer and for every Web application? How easy is it to create a real-time Web application that goes beyond 'chat'? What is needed to successfully create and deploy a real-time Web application?

While AJAX, as XML co-inventor Tim Bray puts it, 'tries to do everything in the browser using just what the browser ships with,' RIA frameworks like Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, and JavaFX aim to take developers beyond the limitations of the browser. 'I'm not brave enough to predict who wins,' Bray noted in a SYS-CON.com feature earlier this year, 'but I do predict that 2008 will be a crucial year; either RIAs enter the mainstream, or they start to smell like a red herring left in the sun.'

'The Web needs fixing' says Yahoo! Architect Douglas Crockford bluntly, pointing out that the standards and recommendations that define the Web were last revised in 1999. In his keynote in March at AJAXWorld 2008 East in New York City, Crockford intends to argue that, since the Web has now grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system, the cleverness of the Web development community and the surprising expressive power of JavaScript have brought us to its very limits. 'The Web is no longer a driver of innovation,' says Crockford. 'It is now a serious impediment.' But in his March AJAXWorld Keynote he will offer tangible Next Steps for how we can fix it.

BEA announced the availability of BEA WebLogic Portal 10.2. This new release solidifies the mission- critical enterprise portal capabilities and introduces enhancements designed to build more dynamic and interactive experiences. Numerous improvements are focused on developer and end-user productivity including AJAX development, dynamic tools for modifying portal content and style and increased security capabilities. Additionally, BEA continues to innovate in the presentation layer architecture by adding support for Web 2.0 interactivity, portal federation, mashup, and composite application capabilities.

If you are venturing to implement a Rich Internet Application (RIA) with Appcelerator, then there are features about the framework that I'm really geared up about that help you implement your solution effectively. When used together these items enable the agile creation of solutions in a shorter time that integrate nicely with services in an existing architecture and provide a richer user experience for clients.

Andreas Ecker, the project leader behind one of the most comprehensive and innovative Open Source AJAX frameworks, qooxdoo, is going to be speaking later this month in New York City at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East. At 1&1 Internet AG (http://1and1.com), one of the biggest Web hosts worldwide, Ecker leads a team of engineers who are dedicated full-time to qooxdoo development. With over twelve years experience he enjoys leveraging the power of cross-browser AJAX applications.

The author of 'Agilization - The Regeneration of Competitiveness,' Ian Tomlin, believes that agility comes from releasing pockets of innovation that exists within organizations. Later this month, at AJAXWorld 2008 East in NYC, he'll be giving a session on how organzations can delivering enterprise RIAs without coding: by exploiting code-free composite applications to solve their business priorities.

At AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East in New York City later this month Mike Padillo will be helping attendees understand what AJAX affords and which UX (User eXperience) characteristics lend themselves to an AJAX implementation. Currently a UX manager at Vanguard, Padillo has led front-end development efforts for such companies as Fleet Credit Cards, Mellon Private Asset Management, The Bank of New York, Radian Guaranty and Bessemer Trust. Macromedia (now Adobe) has featured his usability designs.

For over 10 years Andrew Powell has been architecting and developing Web applications using ColdFusion, Java, ASP.NET and ASP. At AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East in New York City later this month he will be exploring the fundamentals of the Spry framework including dynamic datasets, widgets and visual effects, as well as broader tips and tricks for developing engaging, AJAX-based websites.

Now a tech lead in the Developer API Evangelism group at Google, Chris Schalk is also one of the original members of the OpenAjax Alliance and later this month he will be giving a session at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East in New York City on 'Building AJAX Social Applications Using OpenSocial' - the set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web-based social network applications developed by Google and released last November.

With over 10 years of Web application development experience mostly for Fortune 500 companies utilizing Microsoft, Java and Adobe technologies, Mike Grushin - currently CTO of the CTO of SharpStyle Labs, a software products company focusing on building Rich Internet Applications - will in New York City later this month at AJAXWorld 2008 East be giving a session entitled 'RIA Development on the Microsoft Stack Using Flex.'

With over 13 years of industry experience and a proven track record in enterprise architecture definition, legacy integration, technology strategy and migration, project management and full-lifecycle IT solution delivery, Dev Worah will be giving a session in New York City later this month at AJAXWorld 2008 East entitled 'Creating Agile Business Solutions in Financial Services using RIAs & Other Emerging Technologies.'

Rich Internet Applications pick up the ball where plain Web applications dropped it: they promise to bring the power of desktop applications to the Web. Desktop applications almost went out of fashion with the advent of Web applications. But most people still prefer the rich user interface (UI) and interactivity of desktop applications such as Outlook compared to their Web-based siblings such as GMail and Yahoo! Mail. In many cases the convenience of ubiquity compensates for the inferior or cumbersome user interface.

For over 10 years Jeff Brown has been involved in designing and building object oriented systems, and is a member of the core Groovy and Grails development teams. At AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East in New York City later this month he will be explaining how Grails delivers the power and flexibility of 'coding by convention' to the Java platform.

In a web application when the complexity of navigational logic across multiple components grows rapidly, it becomes quite difficult to keep the navigation configuration file clean and clearly visible. Using SWF can help make applications more manageable, with neat and clear flow navigational file and flexible multi-scoped state management. But when a request spans across multiple pages and in one of the pages we need to provide multiple functionalities, AJAX also comes into play.

Gaia AJAX Widgets allows customers to build AJAX applications fast. The framework is built on top of the native ASP.NET server controls. Thus, Gaia AJAX Widgets interacts with the page rendering cycle allowing developers to edit properties in any widget on a page from any event handler of any widget on that same page. Gaia AJAX Widgets is Mono compatible and therefore works on Linux in addition to the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Adobe announced that global brands are embracing the Adobe technology platform for rich Internet applications (RIAs) to create new types of engaging experiences for their customers, partners and employees. Adobe RIA technologies, including Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3 software, provide companies with a comprehensive solution for the creation and deployment of RIAs for the browser and the desktop.

Adobe announced the availability of Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3 software, furthering the Adobe technology platform for rich Internet applications (RIAs). Developers and designers use Adobe RIA technologies to create and deploy rich, branded content and applications. The release of Adobe AIR signals the next wave of Adobe RIA innovation by bridging the capabilities of the Web with the computing capabilities of the desktop. Businesses that leverage the Web as a platform are now using the latest Adobe RIA technologies to build and deploy more engaging applications with the widest reach across browsers, desktops and operating systems.

ILOG announced that its graphical visualization offering for Adobe Flex, ILOG Elixir, is shipping with feature and sales channel enhancements. ILOG also announced that the product will be made available to Independent Software Vendors (ISV) for OEM use through ILOG's sales and support organization. ILOG Elixir 1.0 enables creation of advanced, business-critical and engaging Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for the browser and the desktop using Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIRsoftware - from dashboards to planning and human resources displays.

Trumpeting it as the filling of 'a key last hole in the Google Apps suite,' Matt Glotzbach, product management director for Google Enterprise, heralded the arrival of Google Sites - exclusively available in Google Apps - but early reactions have included industry bloggers who are not overly impressed with Google's use of AJAX despite its claim to make 'Building a site...as simple as editing a document, and you don't need anyone's help to get started.'