Yet Another 17 Google Web
Toolkit Tutorials By Dietrich Kappe Half a year has passed
since I published my
article 36 GWT Tutorials.
As expected, several new
tutorials have come along
that demonstrate deeper,
more sophisticated
aspects of the framework,
as well as addressing
specific IDEs and
libraries. I myself am
working on a more
extensive tuto Feb. 7, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 3,901 read & respond » |
3rd International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo CFP Deadline April
11 By Virtualization News Desk  Key opinion-formers in
the field of
infrastructure and
pioneers of
virtualization
technologies of all types
have already begun
submitting speaking
proposals to
Virtualization Conference
& Expo 2008 East, being
held in New York City,
23-24 June, 2008. Topics
covered will range from
Serv Feb. 7, 2008 12:15 PM Reads: 77,307 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
AJAX-Based Rich Internet
Applications: Backbase
Enterprise Ajax 4.1.2
Kicks Off 2008 By RIA News Desk Newly released in three
editions - a free
Community Edition for
development and
deployment up to one
server and 2CPUs, a
Client Edition, and a JSF
Edition - Backbase
Enterprise Ajax 4.1.2 is
the latest version of
San Mateo, CA-based
Backbase's flagship AJAX
framework for the
Enterpris Feb. 7, 2008 05:00 AM Reads: 8,979 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
Kentico CMS 3.0 Now
Supports Visual Studio
2008, Allowing Developers
to Build Powerful Web 2.0
Sites By CMS News Desk Kentico software has just
released a major upgrade
to its web content
management solution.
Kentico CMS 3.0 now
supports Visual Studio
2008, allowing developers
to build powerful WEB 2.0
sites. Kentico CMS 3.0
now supports development
in both Visual Studio
2005 and 2008. The
administrat Feb. 6, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 3,491 read & respond » |
OPC DataHub Uses
Streaming AJAX and New
Java Applets to Create
Dynamic Web Pages By RIA News Desk The OPC DataHub from
Cogent Real-Time Systems
now provides even more
ways to visualize and
interact with real-time
data in a web browser.
Its new streaming AJAX
Web Data Browser displays
immediate updates to data
from a wide range of
sources like databases,
spreadsheets, and OPC
server Feb. 6, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 2,978 read & respond » |
Web 2.0 Solution Speeds
Assistance to Low- and
Middle-Income Citizens
Most in Need By Web 2.0 News Desk OpSource announced that
Nets to Ladders (N2L) has
selected OpSource
On-Demand to deliver its
groundbreaking Benefits
Enrollment Network
(BENtm). By delivering
this innovative Web
application with
OpSource, N2L has gained
the critical reliability
and security it needs to
help social ser Feb. 6, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 5,475 read & respond » |
froglogic Releases Squish
3.3, The Automated GUI
Testing Tool By RIA News Desk froglogic GmbH announced
version 3.3 of the
leading, cross-platform
automated GUI testing
tool Squish. Squish
supports creating and
running automated GUI
tests of applications
based on a variety of
user interface
technologies including
Trolltech's Qt toolkit,
Java AWT/Swing/NetBeans,
J Feb. 6, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 3,337 read & respond » |
SOASTA Adds Web UI/Ajax
Testing to SOASTA
Concerto By RIA News Desk SOASTA announced a new,
enhanced release of its
Web testing application,
SOASTA Concerto. SOASTA
Concerto now supports Web
UI/Ajax testing ensuring
Ajax-based Web
applications and services
meet the reliability and
performance demanded by
today's Web 2.0 business
requirements. With this Feb. 6, 2008 12:30 PM Reads: 2,987 read & respond » |
Rich Internet
Applications: Tips,
Tricks & Techniques By Emanuele Tatti Usually, in a rich
internet application
(RIA), a user with a
registered account can do
two different logins from
two different
workstations and can
maintain two concurrent
sessions opened. In some
applications we want to
limit the users to one
session per account, so
we have to take co Feb. 6, 2008 04:15 AM Reads: 10,144 read & respond » |
Lightstreamer to Ship
With Panopticon
Enterprise By RIA News Desk Lightstreamer has been
selected by Panopticon
Software for their
Enterprise product which
is web-deployable and
server-based. It enables
you to quickly publish
Panopticon's interactive
data visualizations to
the web - to a small
staff or to thousands of
users. Customers can
install and Feb. 5, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 3,398 read & respond » |
CNET Networks Selects
Hyperic as the Management
Tool for Its Web
Operations By Virtualization News Desk Hyperic announced that
CNET Networks will
standardize its systems
and application
management on Hyperic HQ
Enterprise across all its
web properties. When the
CNET implementation is
complete, Hyperic will be
deployed across thousands
of live Linux servers
throughout CNET's data
centers. Feb. 5, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 2,251 read & respond » |
Optaros Assembles New
Online Shopping Concept
for Wonderbox Built On
SOA By SOA World Magazine News Desk Optaros announced its
design and assembly of a
new online shopping
concept for Wonderbox, a
leading international
Internet and retail
company that sells the
'Wonderbox', which is a
themed gift box
containing vouchers for
6000 experiences from
which the recipient can
choose. Optaros red Feb. 5, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 3,352 read & respond » |
Vitria Brings Web 2.0 to
Business Process
Management By Web 2.0 News Desk Vitria Technology has
announced a Web 2.0 BPM
suite that enables
business users to model,
manage, monitor, and
optimize their business
processes - Vitria's M3O.
Business analysts can
model and execute
business processes in a
Web-based environment in
direct collaboration with
their IT c Feb. 5, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 4,697 read & respond » |
MySpace Developer
Platform Site Launches By Web 2.0 News Desk 'We are committed to
lowering the barrier to
entry for developers
around the world to build
a more collaborative and
dynamic Internet,' said
Chris DeWolfe, CEO and
co-founder of MySpace,
'while empowering our
members to take control
of their online presence
in new and exciting
ways.' Feb. 5, 2008 09:30 AM Reads: 5,861 read & respond » |
European RIA Technology
Leader Canoo Releases
Java RIA Library,
UltraLightClient for AJAX By James Hamilton AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo, March 18-20, 2008,
in New York City will
provide an overview of
Canoo's RIA technology as
compared to its other
European competitors.
Upcoming AJAXWorld
Conference is
demonstrating a stronger
interest and
participation from
delegates around Europe.
Canoo an Feb. 5, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 4,338 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
Three RIA Platforms
Compared: Adobe Flex,
Google Web Toolkit, and
OpenLaszlo By Kevin Whinnery  The defining
characteristic of any RIA
is that it has a stateful
client that is (or should
be) platform and browser
independent. Thin-client
web applications grew
from the need to provide
applications with more
reach, easy access to
server side data, and to
alleviate the pain of
having Feb. 5, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 27,201 Replies: 2 read & respond » |
Does That Mean Nokia
Won't Be Doing a Google
Phone? By Maureen O'Gara Nokia is buying
Trolltech, the publicly
traded Norwegian open
source ISV, for roughly
$153 million cash. Gee,
and Trolltech just joined
the LiMo Foundation, the
anti-Nokia/anti-Microsoft
mobile consortium that's
building a
middleware-focused Linux
handset platform that can
be shared by Feb. 4, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 9,994 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
Adopting Web 2.0 into the
Enterprise By J. Todd Hay  Within the past few
years, Web 2.0 has become
a major technology trend,
dramatically impacting
the way consumers
interact with information
and applications. This
consumer trend is now
extending into the
enterprise; however,
businesses have been more
reluctant than consumers
to adopt th Feb. 4, 2008 11:30 AM Reads: 9,230 read & respond » |
Tracking RIAs with Google
Analytics and Unica
NetInsight By Judah Phillips All this talk about 'the
death of the page view,'
'AJAX,' 'rich media,'
'engagement,' and
'events' is enough to
make even the most savvy
Web analyst think twice
about what we're
measuring these days.
When you use Google Maps,
the name of the page
doesn't change. (So now
you see where Feb. 4, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 15,289 Replies: 3 read & respond » |
Google Blinks By Maureen O'Gara Google doesn't like the
idea of Microsoft buying
Yahoo any more than
Microsoft likes the idea
of Google buying
DoubleClick. Today in a
blog Google general
counsel David Drummond
said Microsoft?'s $44.6
billion hostile bid for
Yahoo 'raises troubling
questions.' 'This is
about more than Feb. 4, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 6,329 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
eZ Publish Resolves MIT
Challenge By Web 2.0 News Desk After a process of
careful evaluation, eZ
Publish from eZ Systems
was selected to help the
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Controller's Office meet
its primary objectives -
to provide easy-to-find,
relevant information for
the MIT user community,
and to offer a secure,
efficient, Feb. 4, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 4,154 read & respond » |
Lightstreamer's
AJAX-Comet Paradigm
Selected for Panopticon
Enterprise Deployment By RIA News Desk 'Lightstreamer gives us
some unique capabilities
and it was really the
only choice for us when
we examined all the
alternatives,' said
Markus Skytter, CTO of
Panopticon Software, as
it was announced today
that Lightstreamer has
been selected by
Panopticon Software for
their Enterprise Feb. 4, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 3,577 read & respond » |
NetBeans Innovators!
Today Is Final Deadline
for Winning $11500 Grants By Java News Desk  Sun is offering ten
grants of US $11,500 -
equivalent to several
months of pay for
developers in some
countries - for the best
NetBeans projects
submitted by open source
developers. Conceived as
a means of increasing
general awareness around
the NetBeans project as
well as rewarding go Feb. 3, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 16,062 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
AJAX Book Recommendation:
"Ajax Security" by
Hoffman and Sullivan By Brian J. Dillard  Reviewers overuse the
phrase 'required
reading,' but no other
description fits the new
book 'Ajax Security'
(2007, Addison Wesley,
470p). This exhaustive
tome from Billy Hoffman
and Bryan Sullivan places
the specific security
concerns of the AJAX
programming model in
historical perspec Feb. 2, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 9,263 read & respond » |
Phurnace Announces
Support for JBoss By Java News Desk Phurnace announced
support for JBoss web
application servers with
the availability of its
newest version, Phurnace
Deliver 3.3. The latest
release, available in
mid-February, provides IT
operations staff with the
resources they need to
decrease configuration
errors, which is one of
the Feb. 1, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 6,002 read & respond » |
Mighty Google Misses By Maureen O'Gara Google, which does not
give guidance, missed
both Wall Street's top
and bottom expectations
for its December quarter
by a hair and the punters
turned vicious pounding
it down around 50 bucks
after-hours. Consensus
demanded non-GAAP
earnings of $4.44 on
revenues of $3.45
billion. Google Feb. 1, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 17,115 Replies: 2 read & respond » |
Keynote Systems to Report
the Online Action Play by
Play By RIA News Desk Keynote Competitive
Research, the industry
analysis group of Keynote
Systems, announced it
would make itself readily
available to media
immediately following
Super Bowl XLII 2008 for
reporting on the
technical quality
(responsiveness and
reliability) of four
leading mobile sports Web
s Feb. 1, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 3,050 read & respond » |
Nexaweb Expands its
Enterprise Web 2.0 and
SOA Leadership with HP
Governance
Interoperability
Framework Membership By SOA World Magazine News Desk Nexaweb announced its
membership to the HP
Governance
Interoperability
Framework (GIF). GIF
provides a collaborative,
standards-based approach
for publishing,
associating, accessing
and managing
service-oriented
architecture (SOA)
metadata and business
service information
across multip Feb. 1, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 5,264 read & respond » |
Although Yahoo! Looks
Pretty Boxed In by
Microsoft, It Could Try
For More Money By Maureen O'Gara Microsoft this morning
made a $44.6 billion
hostile bid for the
floundering Yahoo,
striking at a point when
it has become evident to
all and sundry that Yahoo
doesn't have a pray of
turning things around on
its own let alone getting
competitive. Yahoo's
first official reaction
was basi Feb. 1, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 8,347 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
AJAX Virtualization? Java
Applets to Create Dynamic
Web Pages By RIA News Desk The OPC DataHub from
Cogent Real-Time Systems
now provides more ways to
visualize and interact
with real-time data in a
web browser. Its new
streaming AJAX Web Data
Browser displays
immediate updates to data
from a wide range of
sources like databases,
spreadsheets, and OPC
servers. Th Jan. 31, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 4,268 read & respond » |
The Business Case for
Rich Internet
Applications By Dave Wolf Less than 10 years ago,
still in its infancy, the
Internet was a land of
promise for businesses.
Companies saw bright new
ways to increase their
agility, reach more
customers and to deliver
new, never-before-seen
services. Unquestionably
since then it has
transformed the way
consumers Jan. 31, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 31,922 read & respond » |
RIA Internationalization
& Accessiblity Using Dojo By RIA News Desk  New interaction paradigms
and complex user
interface controls of
AJAX have raised concerns
about access and
usability for users of
all backgrounds and
abilities. Client-side
JavaScript code may
assume certain language
or cultural conventions,
alienating vast
audiences. Graphical and
mo Jan. 31, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 6,119 read & respond » |
Second Wave of AJAX
Standards Initiatives of
OpenAjax Alliance To Be
Unveiled By RIA News Desk  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 Jan. 31, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 6,135 read & respond » |
Rich Internet
Applications with
OpenAjax Hub 1.1 & SMash
Secure Mashups By RIA News Desk  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 Jan. 31, 2008 03:45 PM Reads: 14,086 read & respond » |
4D AJAX For Dreamweaver
v11 Now Available By RIA News Desk 4D announced the release
of 4D Ajax For
Dreamweaver v11, a
plug-in for Adobe
Dreamweaver CS3 that
inserts 4D Ajax objects
into standard web pages.
4D Ajax for Dreamweaver
v11 has been updated to
include support for 4D's
newest 4D Ajax objects,
Dashboards and Dashboard
Charts. These cus Jan. 31, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 3,706 read & respond » |
Google Searching for Java
Innovators By Joe Winchester  Imagine you are a
contestant on a TV game
show and your grinning
quiz master pops the
question: 'Name the one
thing you most associate
with Google?' Think about
your answer - write it on
a card (don't show me
yet). Turning your card
over, it's likely to be
one of the
following...Great Jan. 31, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 23,245 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
Kaazing Aims To Drive a
New Generation of
Real-Time Rich Internet
Applications By RIA News Desk  Are you trading stocks
online today, or playing
poker online? Ever asked
yourself why many of
these service providers
require you to download
and install a desktop
solution? Wouldn't it be
better if you could
receive information such
as stock prices, betting
information, sports, and
ne Jan. 31, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 11,122 read & respond » |
How Do You Develop Web
2.0 Applications Using
jMaki? By Java News Desk  jMaki is an AJAX
framework that provide a
wrapper over rich widgets
from multiple toolkits
such as Yahoo!, Dojo and
many others.
jMaki-wrapped widgets can
be easily used in a JSP,
Rails, PHP and Phobos
app. This session will
explain what jMaki is and
show using live code
demos how easy Jan. 31, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 10,715 read & respond » |
Volta is to AJAX What
Tums is to My Stomach By Kevin Hoffman  In a typical AJAX
application, your goal is
often to have the user
click something. In
response, JavaScript goes
out and (through the
magic of XML HTTP
Requests) obtains data
and potentially modifies
data on a server as well.
Using the returned data,
the JavaScript can then
directly ma Jan. 31, 2008 05:15 AM Reads: 4,331 Replies: 2 read & respond » |
Rich Internet
Applications: Has
Microsoft Finally Seen
the (Silver) Light? By Charlie Fink In response to the
proliferation of other
frameworks used to create
rich Internet
applications such as Flex
from Adobe (formerly from
Macromedia) and
AJAX-based frameworks,
Microsoft Silverlight was
recently introduced. All
three of these
applications, as well as
the others on the mark Jan. 31, 2008 04:15 AM Reads: 21,543 Replies: 1 read & respond » |