AJAX World - You've Heard
of Widgets, But What Are
Woodgets? By RIA News Desk DreamFace DataWidgets
have gotten a lot of
press lately, but what
are Woodgets? DreamFace
Interactive CEO, Olivier
Poupeney gets specific
about woodgets while
presenting key
differentiators of
DreamFace's Web 2.0 Open
Source Framework in his
interview with Jeremy
Geelan for SYS-CON.TV May. 16, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 188 read & respond » |
Changing the Process of
Web Development By Richard Banfield  All new or emerging
businesses are rightfully
cautious of the big
investment required to
launch a successful web
presence. A new
cost-effective and
time-saving service
enables companies to fast
track their strategic and
tactical web initiatives
while still actively
growing their user b May. 16, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 560 read & respond » |
3rd International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo: Themes & Topics By Jeremy Geelan  From Application
Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discussed in
NYC June 23-24, 2008 by
the world-class speaker
faculty at the 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo being held by
SYS-CON Events in The
Roosevelt Hotel, in
midtown May. 16, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 19,358 read & respond » |
Payless Car Rental
Launches iPhone and iPod
Touch Portal By iPhone News Desk  Payless Car Rental has
launched an iPhone and
iPod Touch optimized
website. Payless Car
Rental is a car rental
agency that built a
customized version of its
website for the iPhone
and iPod Touch. The
homepage of Payless'
iPhone interface also
features a 'Call to Book'
button that, when May. 15, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 687 read & respond » |
Alpha Five Platinum
Brings AJAX to the
Enterprise By RIA News Desk  Alpha Software is now
shipping Alpha Five
Platinum Edition, the
ninth release of the
company's flagship Web
database development
platform. It's a
development tool that can
visually build
AJAX-powered
applications, integrate
SQL databases with
drag+drop simplicity, and
deliver enterpris May. 15, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 689 read & respond » |
Facelift Your SOA with
Rich Internet
Applications By SOA World Magazine News Desk  We are entering an era of
Rich Internet
Applications (RIA) and
enhancing the user
experience of consumers
of the services becomes
an important part in
designing and
implementing SOA. But if
you decide to develop
rich clients, you'll be
facing the dilemma -
which way to go - remain
with May. 15, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 891 read & respond » |
What's the Fastest Way to
Get Data to AJAX, Flex,
Silverlight, and JavaFX? By RIA News Desk 'Should CFML developers
switch to Java?' asks
Andrew Powell in an
article this week at
SYS-CON.com. 'No,' he
answers. ColdFusion is
the fastest way to get
data to AJAX, Flex,
Silverlight, and even
JavaFX, according to
Powell, who adds:
'ColdFusion also provides
complex services easier May. 15, 2008 05:00 AM Reads: 680 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
JavaOne 2008: Sun Talks
Up its Late-to-the-Party
AIR-Silverlight Rival By Maureen O'Gara  At Java One this week Sun
has been selling its year
-old-but-still-upcoming -
and definitely
late-to-the-party - Adobe
AIR- and Microsoft
Silverlight-competitive
JavaFX Rich Client
environment as a
potential
revenue-generator capable
of putting ads on mobile
applications and JavaFX
Scri May. 14, 2008 01:45 AM Reads: 2,843 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
Exclusive Q&A with Jeff
Haynie, Co-Founder & CEO,
Appcelerator By Jeremy Geelan  'We're dedicated to
building the largest
open-source community
dedicated to RIAs,
breaking down the
barriers between
traditional preferred
languages, programming
models and solutions,'
says the co-founder & CEO
of Appcelerator, Jeff
Haynie, in this Exclusive
Q&A with Jeremy Geelan.
To May. 13, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 32,227 Replies: 4 read & respond » |
How To Launch a
Successful Technology
Start-Up By Jeremy Geelan  'Ten years ago,' Coach
Wei tells Jeremy Geelan
in this exclusive
interview with AJAXWorld
Magazine, 'I was as a
poor graduate student
naive enough to start a
company at the bottom of
the 'dot-bomb' burst. I
learned so much coping
with the 'nuclear
winter,' raising $18M in
financing, wo May. 13, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 19,852 Replies: 2 read & respond » |
frevvo Empowers
Businesses to Create RIAs
With New Live Forms
Software By RIA News Desk  frevvo announced Live
Forms software which
enables users and
developers to easily
create rich AJAX forms
with built-in business
capabilities. Live Forms
provides a complete
Web-based design
experience that can be
embedded into any
application and is ideal
for Enterprise Social
Software May. 12, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 583 read & respond » |
Software Executive Claims
"The Love Is Gone" for
Java By RIA News Desk 'When was the last time
you heard about a cool
web app that wasn't
written in Rails or PHP?'
asks Chris Keene, CEO of
WaveMaker, in an article
published today at
SYS-CON.com. 'OK, people
still build lots of cool
stuff in Java,' Keene
continues, 'but the love
is gone and it's just a
day May. 12, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 2,594 read & respond » |
Web 2.0 Server and Push
Technology Market Shares
Strategies, and
Forecasts, 2008 to 2014 By Web 2.0 News Desk Research and Markets has
announced the addition of
'Web 2.0 Server and Push
Technology Market Shares
Strategies, and
Forecasts, 2008 to 2014'
to their offering.
Advertising budgets have
not been directly
connected to the computer
and technology before the
Web 2.0 companies started
attr May. 12, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 618 read & respond » |
WaveMaker Introduces
Visual AJAX for Mac By RIA News Desk  WaveMaker announced the
release of Visual AJAX
Studio version 3.2. The
new version introduces a
beta installer for Mac OS
10.5 (Leopard) and full
support for the Safari
Browser, bringing
WaveMaker's drag-and-drop
Java development to the
Mac. May. 12, 2008 03:30 AM Reads: 3,110 read & respond » |
Curl Announces Support
for Ubuntu for Enterprise
RIA Platform By RIA News Desk Curl announced it has
released the availability
of an Ubuntu Installer
for the Curl Rich
Internet Application
(RIA) platform. Curl is a
Rich Internet Application
platform that competes
with Adobe AIR/Flex,
Silverlight, and Ajax.
Curl has been shipping
with Linux support for
RedHat 9, S May. 12, 2008 02:30 AM Reads: 1,922 read & respond » |
Real-Time Kaazing
Solution and Sun's
Glassfish Forge RIA
Alliance By RIA News Desk  Kaazing Corporation and
Sun Microsystems
announced an alliance to
deliver the scalable and
advanced real-time Web
2.0 platform. The
integration between
Kaazing's real-time Rich
Internet Application
(RIA) solution,
Enterprise Comet, and Sun
Microsystems' open source
Java EE application May. 12, 2008 02:30 AM Reads: 2,230 read & respond » |
Sun Shows How JavaFX
Creates Rich Internet
Applications at JavaOne By RIA News Desk Rich Green, executive
vice president of
Software at Sun, outlined
in his keynote
presentation at JavaOne
in San Francisco a
roadmap for the JavaFX
family of products that
includes a high
performance declarative
scripting language,
JavaFX Script - created
for Web scripters,
designers an May. 12, 2008 02:15 AM Reads: 2,440 read & respond » |
ShoZu Adds Eight New
Destinations to Mobile
Social Media Service By Wireless News Desk  ShoZu announced that it
has expanded its mobile
social media service to
Photobucket, Dailymotion,
Friendster, Twitter and
four additional Web 2.0
and Mobile 2.0
communities. With these
eight new integrations,
ShoZu now enables mobile
users to interact with
their choice of 36 social
net May. 9, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 1,773 read & respond » |
New Synchronization
Features in eValid
Support AJAX Application
Testing By RIA News Desk  Software Research has
announced the
availability of major new
specialized commands in
its Patented eValid
Website Test & Analysis
Suite. eValid has
introduced a set of AJAX
Playback Synchronization
on DOM Element commands
that provide direct
control of test script
playback synchronizat May. 9, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 1,488 read & respond » |
AJAX World - Xceed
Launches Microsoft
Silverlight 2 Control By .NETDJ News Desk Xceed launched Xceed
Upload for Silverlight,
the commercial offering
in support of Microsoft's
promising new Silverlight
technology. The product
is available now for
purchase or as a fully
functional 45-day trial
on Xceed's website. Xceed
Upload for Silverlight
lets developers add uplo May. 9, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 2,260 read & respond » |
Sun Adds Comprehensive
Video Capabilities to
Java Platform With On2
Technologies By Java News Desk Sun Microsystems
announced it has entered
into a multi-year
agreement with On2
Technologies to add
comprehensive video
capabilities, using On2
Technologies TrueMotion
video codecs, to Sun's
JavaFX, a family of
products for creating
Rich Internet
Applications (RIAs) with
immersive media May. 9, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 2,365 read & respond » |
AJAX World - Skyway
Software Announces RIA
Developer Contest By RIA News Desk  According to Sean Walsh,
President and CEO of
Skyway Software, 'Our
Skyway Community is
thriving and our members
are very talented. We
truly look forward to
their RIAs submittals and
Skyway Builder extensions
and are excited that all
of the contributions will
benefit the entire Skyway May. 9, 2008 07:30 AM Reads: 1,950 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
SYS-CON Media Distributes
Collectible
"Virtualization Journal
Mugs" at JavaOne By Virtualization News Desk  Virtualization Journal
now reaches more than
60,000 online readers
with monthly digital
editions and weekly
newsletters. The premier
issue of the magazine's
print edition, which
debuts on May 6, 2008, at
JavaOne in San Francisco,
as a media sponsor of
this event, will be
available on n May. 8, 2008 06:45 PM Reads: 1,807 read & respond » |
Oracle Previews Fusion
Middleware 11g By Oracle News Desk Building on its November
2007 preview, Oracle
previewed additional
planned feature
enhancements of Oracle
Fusion Middleware 11g.
Based on feedback
resulting from close
cooperation with
customers testing in
real-world environments,
the latest preview of
Oracle Fusion Middleware
11g incl May. 8, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 1,416 read & respond » |
"Virtualization Journal"
Debuts This Week at
JavaOne By Virtualization News Desk  Founded in 2006, SYS-CON
Media's 'Virtualization
Journal' is the world's
first magazine devoted
exclusively to what
Gartner has earmarked as
the single highest-impact
IT trend through 2012:
virtualization. And now
it will be available on
newsstands worldwide, as
SYS-CON Media seeks to May. 8, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 4,786 Replies: 3 read & respond » |
EnterpriseDB Releases
Java Application
Generator Plug-in for
Postgres Studio By Java News Desk EnterpriseDB released a
plug-in for Postgres
Studio that creates an
AJAX-enabled Java
application based on a
Postgres database table
or schema. Postgres
Studio is a graphical
database administration
console that is built on
the widely admired
pgAdmin foundation and
only available as pa May. 7, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 1,794 read & respond » |
Infragistics Announces
New AJAX Tool By Java News Desk  Infragistics announced
the availability of
Infragistics NetAdvantage
for JSF 2008 Volume 1
enabling web developers
to leverage the power of
JavaServer Faces to
create compelling User
Interfaces (UI). This new
release provides a
comprehensive package of
AJAX-enabled JSF UI
components fo May. 7, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 1,556 read & respond » |
On-Demand Platform as a
Service to Enable Java
and AJAX Over the Cloud By Java News Desk The Morph Application
Platform for Java, a
Platform as a Service
(PaaS) that virtualizes
the application
environment and leverages
cloud computing resources
such as the Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud
(EC2) is now in limited
developer preview.
Webtide, the team behind
Jetty, has brought t May. 6, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 1,243 read & respond » |
Backbase Enterprise AJAX
Now Supports Adobe AIR By RIA News Desk  Backbase added official
support for Adobe AIR, a
new runtime environment
from Adobe Systems for
deploying rich Internet
applications (RIAs). This
integration lets
applications built on
Backbase Enterprise AJAX
run as applications on
the desktop across
various operating
systems. Applica May. 6, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 1,052 read & respond » |
Gluecode Creator Thinks
He Can Take Google's App
Engine By Maureen O'Gara  A Philippines-based Web
2.0 start-up called Morph
Labs thinks its cloud can
rain on Google's
newfangled App Engine.
Morph Labs was founded by
Winston Damarillo, the
guy who did Gluecode, the
only open source company
IBM ever bought, a move
made to protect its
precious WebSphere
franchi May. 6, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 3,272 read & respond » |
Artech Launches GeneXus X
to Expand Business
Opportunities By Web 2.0 News Desk Artech launched GeneXus
X, the tenth GeneXus
version, designed to
expand the business
opportunities of
companies. GeneXus X
incorporates new tools
aimed at increasing the
productivity of the work
team and facilitate the
rapid generation of
corporate Web 2.0
applications. May. 5, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 1,373 read & respond » |
A Look at Some Heavy
Hitters and Newcomers in
the RIA Market By Kevin Whinnery In the world of Rich
Internet Applications,
there is no shortage of
technology choices to
compose a user interface.
But what tools will give
us the best bang for our
buck? Here is a look at
some heavy hitters and
newcomers in the RIA
market, including: HTML &
AJAX, Rails and Grails,
Fl May. 5, 2008 07:30 AM Reads: 10,088 Replies: 8 read & respond » |
The Way of the Widget in
the Age of the Social Web By Mike Jones  As the Internet's newest
way to connect brands
with consumers, widgets
have officially arrived.
These portable applets
appear on blogs,
websites, and social
networking sites like
MySpace and Facebook.
Offered by third-party
developers as embedded
Flash (.swf) objects, the
self-containe May. 1, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 3,829 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
Virtualization - IBM
Creates Cloud Box By Maureen O'Gara  IBM claims to have
created new species of
custom-built,
industry-standard,
Linux-based rack server
for Web 2.0 and Cloud
Computing companies with
massive data centers and
tens of thousands of
servers, like online
gaming, social networks,
search and Internet
firms. A relatively
limited Apr. 30, 2008 05:15 PM Reads: 2,957 read & respond » |
P2P Explained: What
Exactly is a Peer
Network? By Kevin Hoffman  Peer networks are really
just logical graphs of
computers, or, in many
cases, logical graphs of
connected applications.
The physical topology of
the peer network, means
of communication, and
weighting of the edges
are all
implementation-specific
details that differ from
P2P network to Apr. 30, 2008 05:15 PM Reads: 4,226 Replies: 2 read & respond » |
HCL Technologies
Introduces New Breed SaaS
Service Delivery Platform By SaaS News Desk HCL Technologies
announced the launch of
its new SaaS Service
Delivery Platform (SDP)
AGORA. Service disruption
and Web 2.0 have resulted
in a sudden outburst of
participation by the user
and developer
communities. This, along
with increasing
collaboration between
independent service p Apr. 29, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 872 read & respond » |
Europen AJAX Technology
Leader Telerik Announces
.NET Components and
Reporting Tool By .NETDJ News Desk  Telerik announced the
landmark release of its
Q1 2008 RadControls for
ASP.NET AJAX and
WinForms, and Telerik
Reporting. The new
release represents a
final touch in Telerik's
goal to offer a
comprehensive and mature
toolset of
next-generation web and
desktop components. Apr. 28, 2008 08:15 PM Reads: 1,872 read & respond » |
Beyond AJAX to the Rich
Internet Application &
Rich Interactive
Experience Era By Jeremy Geelan  RIAs offer the potential
to fundamentally change
the user experience and
in doing so, yield
significant business
benefits. The theme of
this October's AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008
West is 'Beyond AJAX to
the RIA Era' and the Call
for Papers, which is
currently still open,
specifica Apr. 28, 2008 07:00 PM Reads: 38,265 Replies: 3 read & respond » |
AJAX E-mail Client
Integrates Into Web 2.0
Applications By RIA News Desk  Zapatec introduced the
Zapatec AJAX E-mail
Client, the second in a
series of self-contained
modules designed for
integration into Web 2.0
applications. Zapatec's
AJAX E-mail Client
enables developers to add
needed web-based e-mail
functionality to their
applications, freeing
them to fo Apr. 28, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,764 read & respond » |
AJAX World - ILOG Targets
RIA Development on .NET
Platform By RIA News Desk  ILOG announced that its
latest graphics toolkits
for the .NET platform are
aimed at helping
Microsoft developers
create rich internet
applications (RIA),
specifically interactive
and visually-rich
diagrams and Gantt
charts. ILOG Diagrammer
for .NET 1.5 and ILOG
Gantt for .NET 3.5, ILOG Apr. 28, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,801 read & respond » |