Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, AJAXWorld News Desk has been covering every aspect of AJAX-enabled applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking AJAX news, please feel free to send it to ajax@sys-con.com.
OpSource, delivers Web
applications and software
as a service for
on-demand companies, with
hundreds of applications,
millions of users and
billions of transactions
supported daily. OpSource
On-Demand, the leading
platform for Web
application delivery, is
defining how Web-based
softwar
With over 15 years of
work on improving the
user experience through
the user interface,
Olivier Poupeney contends
that a new mode of
information visualization
known as a Mashup
combined with the
collaborative aspects of
Web 2.0 is finding
success where Composite
Applications struggled.
One Great City, Two Great
Keynotes, Three Intense
Days, Eighteen Core
Topics, Eighty-Five
Content-Rich Sessions,
Ninety-Eight Expert
Speakers - what better
way to summarize the 5th
International AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo than
through this numerical
whirlwind tour? Enjoy!
Jean-Francois Arcand,
Technical Lead of the
Java NIO-based http
engine called Grizzly,
will be speaking next
week at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008
East at The Roosevelt
Hotel in New York City,
the 5th International
AJAXWorld.
Sun Microsystems, a
creator and industry
leading advocate of
emerging technologies, is
revolutionizing and
redefining system-wide
management of rich,
standards-compliant,
Internet applications for
the next generation Web.
A singular vision -- 'The
Network Is The Computer'
-- guides Sun
Appcelerator is an open
source software company
specializing in products
and services for rapid
rich Internet application
(RIA) and SOA-based
services development. The
Appcelerator Platform
SDKs enable developers to
develop rich Ajax and
DHTML applications using
cross-browser widgets,
DreamFace Interactive
provides a revolutionary
new way for web-savvy
business people to
create, control, and
share their own web
applications, through a
unique and innovative
concept called
WebChannels that make
possible the creation of
applications designed for
change. The company's g
ICEsoft Technologies is a
leading provider of
standards-compliant,
AJAX-based solutions for
developing and deploying
Java EE, rich Internet
applications. The
company's portfolio of
enterprise level Java
products includes
ICEfaces, an AJAX
application framework
that enables Java EE appl
Nexaweb's Enterprise Web
2.0 solution is an
application development
and deployment platform
that increases
productivity by
minimizing painful
coding; improves
efficiency through the
re-use of legacy and SOA
assets; and creates a
more agile business by
delivering secure,
mission-critica
Kaazing, headquartered in
Silicon Valley,
California, is founded
for the purpose of
delivering the best
possible real-time
experience for the
Internet. The company
provides real-time
software solutions to
customers who really care
about their end-user
experience when it comes
to usabil
The iPhone is
transforming the Web as
we know it and compelling
every Web designer to
consider handheld
portable devices. This
session covers various
aspects of iPhone and
iPod Touch development.
It will include tips and
tricks as well as best
practices to follow.
Williams also covers
The iPhone and Google
Android platform are
undisputedly transforming
the mobile industry by
bringing smartphone
capabilities to the
masses. They are also
making for enticing new
mobile platforms for
developing and deploying
new types of mobile apps
and services for mass
market users. Y
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
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
As AJAXWorld 2008 East in
NYC next week approaches,
speakers have been
blogging in anticipation,
sow e thought we'd bring
you a quick round-up here
of what's being said in
advance of next week's
frontal assault on the
worlds of front-end
engineering, User
eXperience, and Rich
Internet
From Brisbane to Berlin
and from Tokyo to
Toronto, delegates began
converging on New York
today as the 5th
International AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo got
under way in New York
City. Delegates are
coming from a record 31
different countries,
eager to play catch-up
with all that's been ha
DreamFace Interactive
would like to invite you
to stop by their booth at
AJAXWorld and discover
DreamFace Interactive.
Building on the major
concepts of Web 2.0: Do
IT Yourself,
Personalization and
Sharing, DreamFace is
announcing the Ultimate
Web 2.0 Framework for
Building Enterprise
From Brisbane to Berlin
and from Tokyo to
Toronto, delegates will
be converging next month
at AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo 2008 East in New
York City from 26
different countries,
eager to play catch-up
with all that's been
happening in the world of
Rich Internet
Applications since the l
Last year, the overall
demand for RIAs outpaced
the qualified supply
chain. This trend will
continue in 2008. While
last year brought
unprecedented growth in
RIA adoption - especially
by Fortune 500 companies
- RIA adoption in 2008
brings a new onslaught of
risks, rewards,
challenges,
'Which RIA platform to
choose? Whichever one can
deliver the best
functionality combined
with industrial-strength
reliability, performance,
and scalability will win
the race.' That, in the
view of Bert Halstead, is
the long and the short of
it. And many of his
fellow executives in the
Designing a state of the
art user interface (UI)
in a very visual
application that is
managing a lot of
elements posed
significant challenge due
to the nature of the
application: virtualizing
and running entire data
centers through a
browser.
'Front-end engineering
rocks right now,' says
upcoming AJAXWorld
speaker Christian
Heilmann from Yahoo! 'The
era of boring web sites
is over and we're all
into pushing the
envelope, erasing
boundaries and getting
beyond whatever prevents
us from building the next
killer web application
Day Software will be
featured at AJAXWorld
East 2008, highlighting
the company's technical
expertise in the areas of
REST and AJAX. At the
show, Day Software's Lars
Trieloff, product manager
for collaboration and
digital asset management,
will give a presentation
entitled, 'REST and AJ
The work of Billy
Hoffman, lead security
researcher for SPI
Dynamics
(www.spidynamics.com),
which was purchased by
Hewlett-Packard last
year, has been featured
in Wired, Make magazine,
Slashdot, G4TechTV, and
in various other journals
and Web sites. Today
though he is in full flow
at t
Google said Tuesday that
it's going mobile with
its Google Gears
technology, the stuff
that's supposed to let
web-based apps run
unconnected to the web,
beginning with Windows
Mobile 5 and 6 devices
ahead of its own nascent
Android platform. Same
day, Microsoft came out
and made a vict
This year Comet is more
and more popular, and it
is reflected at
conferences in terms of
the number of sessions
talking about Comet. This
is interesting, as it
wasn't the case last
year. Just for fun, here
is a unofficial list of
conferences where Comet
was discussed in 2007,
and the n
Stratavia announced the
availability of its
latest release, Data
Palette 5.0. This new
version introduces an
AJAX-based user interface
design, providing a rich
user experience for
centralized global IT
administration. It also
features advances in
standardizing and
automating complex, e
Just as with advertising
measurement for AJAX, I
continue to follow the
technology known as Comet
(open up an HTTP request
from browser to server,
then keep it open,
pushing content down
periodically) to see if
it is ready for prime
time. I thought I'd share
my reading list from the
la
I frequently hear the
question: 'Does Dojo have
an AJAX method that
updates a div?' - The
answer is that there's no
Dojo-approved way of
doing something like
this. Updating a div is
such an easy process,
that implementing a de
facto solution is not
only extra code, but you
also hit a w
IBM says it's found a way
to make mashups secure
enough for business.
Because of inherent
browser insecurity,
mashups aren't really
viable for widespread
business adoption. But
what's a little thing
like viability compared
to the pressure of
keeping up with the
Joneses - in this case t
YeahReader is a free tool
for reading news feeds in
RSS, RDF and Atom
formats, and podcasts.
YeahReader provides all
basic RSS reader
functionality such as a
convenient feed update
system, proxy support and
pop-up update
notification. Besides
this, YeahReader has such
features as built
The 'Same Origin Policy'
is at the core of
browser's security model.
Under the 'Same Origin
Policy', a web resource
can only interact with
another web resource if
and only if both
resources are from the
same origin. However,
'Cross site scripting'
and 'cookie' both brings
security chal
IBM announced new
technology to secure
'mashups,' web
applications that pull
information from multiple
sources, such as Web
sites, enterprise
databases or emails, to
create one unified view.
Mashups are attractive
for business use, as they
allow non-technical users
to gain insight on c
For the past ten years
application developers
have been stuck with only
two desktop client
choices. Traditionally,
they can choose either a
very thin Web-client
technology implemented in
HTML and CSS, or a very
heavyweight thick client
experience implemented
using traditional
client/se
Sun Microsystems, a
creator and industry
leading advocate of
emerging technologies, is
revolutionizing and
redefining system-wide
management of rich,
standards-compliant,
Internet applications for
the next generation Web.
A singular vision -- 'The
Network Is The Computer'
-- guides Sun
Acquia has yet to price
its maintenance and
support subscriptions -
there should be a variety
of SLAs - but they're
supposed to include an
electronic update
notification system code
named Spokes for updates
that have been reviewed
for security and
compatibility and are
supported by Acq
NeboWeb announced the
launch of the new ReGen
Biologics corporate
website powered by
NeboWeb's AJAX-based
Content Management
System. The CMS includes
intuitive content
management features for
page creation. With
integrated editing tools,
file history views with
rollback functionality,
Hot on the heels of
Apple's announced iPhone
SDK, Relevantis released
its Dynamic Ads solution
for iPhone. The platform
is to enable interactive
AJAX advertisements on
mobile phones, allowing
advertisers to interact
with customers in a
personalized and engaging
manner.
StrikeIron announced it
has extended its sports
offering with the
addition of Major League
Baseball (MLB) data from
The Sports Network (TSN).
The TSN Major League
Baseball Web Service
enables users to acquire
up-to-date information on
America's favorite
pastime including league,
team a
There is now a spectrum
of Rich Internet
Application (RIA)
technologies - including
Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR,
Microsoft Silverlight and
Curl - that go beyond the
traditional functionality
that AJAX provides. These
platforms provide
distinct benefits for
moving complex desktop
and client-s
About Newsfeeds / Video Feeds
One Great City, Two Great
Keynotes, Three Intense
Days, Eighteen Core
Topics, Eighty-Five
Content-Rich Sessions,
Ninety-Eight Expert
Speakers - what better
way to summarize the 5th
International AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo than
through this numerical
whirlwind tour? Enjoy!
Jean-Francois Arcand,
Technical Lead of the
Java NIO-based http
engine called Grizzly,
will be speaking next
week at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008
East at The Roosevelt
Hotel in New York City,
the 5th International
AJAXWorld. 
The iPhone is
transforming the Web as
we know it and compelling
every Web designer to
consider handheld
portable devices. This
session covers various
aspects of iPhone and
iPod Touch development.
It will include tips and
tricks as well as best
practices to follow.
Williams also covers 
The iPhone and Google
Android platform are
undisputedly transforming
the mobile industry by
bringing smartphone
capabilities to the
masses. They are also
making for enticing new
mobile platforms for
developing and deploying
new types of mobile apps
and services for mass
market users. Y
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
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
From Brisbane to Berlin
and from Tokyo to
Toronto, delegates will
be converging next month
at AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo 2008 East in New
York City from 26
different countries,
eager to play catch-up
with all that's been
happening in the world of
Rich Internet
Applications since the l
Last year, the overall
demand for RIAs outpaced
the qualified supply
chain. This trend will
continue in 2008. While
last year brought
unprecedented growth in
RIA adoption - especially
by Fortune 500 companies
- RIA adoption in 2008
brings a new onslaught of
risks, rewards,
challenges, 
'Which RIA platform to
choose? Whichever one can
deliver the best
functionality combined
with industrial-strength
reliability, performance,
and scalability will win
the race.' That, in the
view of Bert Halstead, is
the long and the short of
it. And many of his
fellow executives in the 
Designing a state of the
art user interface (UI)
in a very visual
application that is
managing a lot of
elements posed
significant challenge due
to the nature of the
application: virtualizing
and running entire data
centers through a
browser. 
'Front-end engineering
rocks right now,' says
upcoming AJAXWorld
speaker Christian
Heilmann from Yahoo! 'The
era of boring web sites
is over and we're all
into pushing the
envelope, erasing
boundaries and getting
beyond whatever prevents
us from building the next
killer web application
Google said Tuesday that
it's going mobile with
its Google Gears
technology, the stuff
that's supposed to let
web-based apps run
unconnected to the web,
beginning with Windows
Mobile 5 and 6 devices
ahead of its own nascent
Android platform. Same
day, Microsoft came out
and made a vict
IBM says it's found a way
to make mashups secure
enough for business.
Because of inherent
browser insecurity,
mashups aren't really
viable for widespread
business adoption. But
what's a little thing
like viability compared
to the pressure of
keeping up with the
Joneses - in this case t
The 'Same Origin Policy'
is at the core of
browser's security model.
Under the 'Same Origin
Policy', a web resource
can only interact with
another web resource if
and only if both
resources are from the
same origin. However,
'Cross site scripting'
and 'cookie' both brings
security chal
Acquia has yet to price
its maintenance and
support subscriptions -
there should be a variety
of SLAs - but they're
supposed to include an
electronic update
notification system code
named Spokes for updates
that have been reviewed
for security and
compatibility and are
supported by Acq
There is now a spectrum
of Rich Internet
Application (RIA)
technologies - including
Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR,
Microsoft Silverlight and
Curl - that go beyond the
traditional functionality
that AJAX provides. These
platforms provide
distinct benefits for
moving complex desktop
and client-s
