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As the momentum for the
new class of SOA
middleware continues to
grow, developers are
looking for simple yet
scalable solutions that
can integrate disparate
data across a variety of
on-premises, on-demand
and Web 2.0 information
sources and applications.
With many of such data
integrat 
The enterprise Web
ecosystem is becoming
increasingly complex,
comprised of multiple
disparate partner sites,
data sources and Web
services - all of which
make up the new mashup
world. And while the
method of delivering
enterprise applications
may be changing, the
users expectations fo
Enterprises have been
making significant
investments to create SOA
infrastructures that
produce SOA and Web
services. The focus is
now shifting to 'putting
a face on SOA' by
enabling distributed
business units to easily
consume these services
and thus accelerate SOA
benefits and ROI. N
With millions of iPhones
sold in recent months,
enterprises are
challenged with how to
manage the influx of
these personal devices
coming 'in the back door'
without compromising
security policies. One
IDC analyst states,
'Bringing secure
enterprise wireless email
to the Apple iPhone br
jMaki has evolved from
giving developers the
ability to sprinkle AJAX
into their web apps
easily to be a full AJAX
framework. jMaki has
evolved once again with
the jMaki Webtop which
lets you quickly create
mashups using jMaki
widgets that can interact
with each other. The
jMaki Webtop
Learn about the best kept
secret in AJAX
application development!
This session will help
you save weeks of time as
you learn how to create
AJAX solutions that rival
desktop type GUIs with
astounding ease using the
TIBCO General Interface
professional AJAX
toolkit. Understand what
makes 
As much as we like the
term real-time, it has
over time become too
saturated to lend itself
any use to Web 2.0
technologies that really
mean it. Question is;
what do we actual mean
with 'real-time'? In what
context is it used? And
what impact will it have
on your business? This
session 
The Apache Trinidad
project offers you more
than 100 AJAX-building
components for an
AJAX-integration, that is
almost for free. It also
provides you a client-
and server-side AJAX-API,
for leveraging 3rd party
libraries such as Dojo or
Yahoo UI. Facelets lowers
the pain, when creating 
In this session, Chris,
lead developer on the RDT
(Ruby Development Tools)
Project, will review all
of the major features of
the Aptana IDE - a free,
open source,
cross-platform,
JavaScript-focused
development environment
for building AJAX
applications. It features
code assist on JavaS
Performance measurement
and analysis in the
public sector is in the
infancy stages, but
already AJAX can be
leveraged to bring easy
to use, powerful
Web-based user interfaces
into this space. We will
examine what the
challenges are to
measuring performance and
then demo how AJAX tackle
We are entering an era of
Rich Internet
Applications (RIA), and
many enterprise
development managers are
facing the dilemma -
which way to go - remain
with tried and true Java
or .Net or experiment
with such newcomers as
AJAX, Flex, Silverlight,
or JavaFX. While Internet
brings a lot o
Jon Ferraiolo will
introduce the industry
consortium that drives
AJAX standards and
interoperability: the
OpenAjax Alliance. He
will provide an overview
of recent
accomplishments,
particularly OpenAjax Hub
1.0, but focus on new
initiatives. Among the
new initiatives are two
mashup-rela 
The Web needs fixing. The
standards and
recommendations that
define the Web were last
revised in 1999. Since
then, the Web has grown
from a document retrieval
system into an
application delivery
system. We have made
significant progress
since then, due to the
cleverness of the Web
deve 
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 d
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 
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 i
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 i
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. I
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 sess
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 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,
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 ap
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 d
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 clie
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 Colla
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 Allianc
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) 
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
F 
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 
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 broad
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, 
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' 
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
communicatio 
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 predi
'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
