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.
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
Complex event processing
and RIA used together
turbo charge application
development. In this
presentation we base our
story around real life
success in building a
real-time trading
application. A thrilling
demo is included.
Fueled by the explosive
growth in digital media
and user generated
content, the demand for
storage has increased
exponentially, placing
significant stress on
current 'in house'
storage architectures and
costly overcapacity
build-outs. Factoring in
time-to-market pressures
as well as po
In this presentation,
we'll introduce Laszlo
Webtop 1.2, a framework
built on OpenLaszlo for
delivering multiple
RIA/AJAX-based
communications and
collaboration
applications. Coupled
with Webtop's
breakthrough cinematic
user interface is a
corresponding
server-based SOA
framework that
AJAX Data Services is a
JavaScript library that
lets AJAX developers
access the messaging and
data management
capabilities of Flex Data
Services directly from
JavaScript. It lets you
use Flex clients and AJAX
clients that share data
in the same messaging
application or
distributed data
Last year, the overall
demand for RIAs outpaced
the qualified supply
chain. Industry analysts
expect the explosive
growth to continue in
2008. Anthony Franco,
President, EffectiveUI,
will discuss how this
unprecedented increase in
RIA adoption - especially
by the Fortune 500 - will
ena
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
Enterprises are
enthusiastically
embracing the shift from
traditional client/server
computing to SaaS.
Inspired by customers who
have embraced the Web,
developers are using RIA
tools to create
innovative new on-demand
business applications.
One important factor in
the shift from tradit
This session will address
issues to consider when
selecting an AJAX toolkit
and the most effective
IDE for the
implementation. It will
identify the 30-40 UI
components most commonly
used in business and
mission critical software
applications that can be
used as a benchmark for
evaluati
Microsoft introduced
Silverlight as
cross-platform,
cross-browser next
generation RIA solution.
No matter you have LAMP,
ASP.NET or JAVA Web
application, you can take
advantage of Silverlight
to impress your user with
the 'WOW' effects. This
session will use real
world implementations
ASP.NET AJAX is a natural
candidate for RIA
development under the
.NET framework. However,
there are other
complementary or even
alternative technologies
that are worth your
consideration. This
session will start with a
brief market overview and
outline the pros and cons
of some of the
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
PHP is the server-side
technology behind the
majority of Web 2.0 sites
like Facebook, Flickr,
Technorati, Ning, and Web
2.0 applications like
IBM's QedWiki, Wordpress
and SugarCRM, the new
generation of Rich
Internet Applications
(RIAs). Zend's CTO Andi
Gutmans will explain the
three e
In this session, Laurence
Moroney, Microsoft, will
introduce Silverlight 2.0
and how it can be used to
easily and productively
build next generation
Rich Interactive
Applications using C#,
XAML, JavaScript, AJAX
and more. He will
demonstrate how to go
from Zero-to-Hero as well
as how t
Open source, open
platforms, open
development
environments... 'Open'
can mean a lot of things,
and the differences
between one 'open' and
another can be
significant. David
'Lefty' Schelsinger will
examine the various
aspects and uses of the
term 'open' as it relates
to the current evol
Many business developers
want to start using AJAX
by enhancing the forms in
their existing
applications. This
presentation will
demonstrate how to
quickly and easily add
AJAX capabilities to
standard HTML forms using
the Dojo toolkit. The
talk is geared to
developers who want to
enpowe
Jeff Haynie will
introduce the audience to
Appcelerator's
open-source RIA platform.
Attendees will learn how
Appcelerator has been
able to help developers
create AJAX-based RIAs in
less than 1/3 of the
time, with up to 90
percent less code, and
with no Javascript or
third-party toolkit
Web Developers these days
should use libraries, for
the main reason that all
libraries want the same
thing: make it easier for
developers to think about
building their
applications rather than
worrying about quirks and
failures of Web browsers.
Some libraries go even
further in giving
Come learn how to take
your UI to the next level
with Silverlight. You'll
see how powerful Zoomable
interfaces can be built
(hint: bring some 3D Red
and Blue glasses!), how
ink can be integrated
into your Web UI, how
internationalization is a
piece of sushi and how
rolling your own con
Caucho presents a new API
and infrastructure for
Enterprise Comet
applications which takes
care of issues such as
thread and session
management, while using
an interface familiar to
Java developers who have
used JavaEE Servlets.
Demos will be presented
which use this framework
and GWT
With Rich Internet
Application credits that
include Watson and Spring
for Mac OS X, Robb Beal
has directed user
experience design in
projects ranging from
rich business
intelligence to consumer
stock trading to consumer
news and entertainment
portals. Currently he is
the principal syst
Leading RIA practitioner
Jeff Tapper, who has been
developing Internet-based
applications since 1995
for a myriad of clients
including Conde Nast,
Harley Davidson, Toys R
Us, IBM, Dow Jones,
American Express and
Morgan Stanley, is giving
a session in mid-March at
the 5th International
'Tutorials tend to focus
on building new
applications from the
ground up,' notes
Pathfinder's Brian
Dillard, who has recently
written an 'AJAX
Overhaul' Tutorial. 'In
the real world,
programmers are more
likely to constantly
refine an existing app.'
Dillard is a member of
Pathfinder De
'There has been a lot of
buzz around rich Web 2.0
applications, but they
will not become
mainstream until the next
generation of web
platforms emerge - fully
integrated platforms that
enable RIA + SOA.' That
is the current state of
the enterprise Web
development union
according to Appc
'The experience that web
application users expect
has changed profoundly as
'RIA' style application
design has become
prevalent,' says
Microsoft's Joe Stagner.
'Companies developing web
applications can't wait
any longer to solidify
their Rich Internet
Application strategy.'
Stagner wa
From AIR to ZK, this is
an alphabetical round-up
of the fast moving-world
of application
development tools and
frameworks spawned ever
since the appearance of
Google Maps, the
canonical early RIA. The
list includes AIR,
Appcelerator, ATF, Curl,
Dojo, Echo, Eclipse RCP,
Flex, Grails, GW
A round-up of the overall
themes and topics being
presented at AJAXWorld
2008 East at The
Roosevelt Hotel in
midtown Manhattan, March
18-20, 2008 - including
Enterprise Mashups, Rich
Internet Applications,
Security, Enterprise
AJAX, Silverlight, GWT,
Reverse AJAX/'AJAX Push',
AIR/Flas
Bluenog announced that
MultiPlan has chosen
Bluenog Rich Portal as
its portal platform.
Bluenog Rich Portal
brings open source to
enterprise IT shops in an
affordable way. The
platform is built on top
of open source projects
and Web 2.0 standards and
integrates with
commercial enterpri
The movement to
empowering business users
via Enterprise Mashups,
which began to gather
momentum in 2006 and
2007, has now gathered
speed to the extent that
at the upcoming AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008
East in New York City in
mid-March, there is a
dedicated track
showcasing the in
IBM announced the launch
of the first software
Innovation and
Collaboration Lab on the
Rochester Institute of
Technology (RIT) campus
in Rochester, N.Y., where
future software
developers will work on
21st century enterprise
technologies -- including
open collaboration
products -- that
froglogic's upcoming
Squish 4.0 release will
bring many improvements
to the automated
development and QA
process. One strategic
move is to replace the
current in-house
implementation of the
graphical test
development environment
with an Eclipse-based IDE
that is completely
re-designed
Nexaweb announced that it
has established
operations in Europe by
signing a partnership
with Enable-U. Nexaweb's
partnership with Enable-U
is the latest step in the
company's international
growth strategy which
began with expansion into
Japan in 2004 and Korea
in 2007.
In SYS-CON's annual
round-up of technology
predictions earlier this
year, Brad Abrams, a
Group Program Manager at
Microsoft, highlighted
the likelihood of what he
called 'the UX meme of
the consumer facing world
[leaking] into the
enterprise' and noted:
'The days of the
battleship gray
The original founder and
visionary behind Grub,
the distributed Web
crawler recently
re-purchased by Wikia,
Kord Campbell currently
serves as chief
evangelist at Splunk.com.
At AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo 2008 East in New
York City in mid-March,
Campbell will be giving a
session on how
90+ speakers - March
18-20, 2008 - from Danny
Allan, Jean-Francois
Arcand, Roland Barcia,
Robb Beal, David Boloker,
Jeff Brown, Shane Bryzak,
Bob Buffone, Robert
Boedigheimer, Kurt Cagle,
Kord Campbell, Marco
Casario, Lauren Cooney,
Douglas Crockford...to
Scott Regan, David
Schlesinger
businessMart AG announced
it has accelerated its
entry into new business
markets thanks to a new
Web-based trading
platform built on IBM's
service oriented
architecture (SOA) and
Web 2.0 technology.
Combining a flexible
infrastructure with
mashup technology,
businessMart empowered
its
The recently-released
'Xythos On Demand' is a
Software as a Service
(SaaS) content management
service for smaller
businesses and
departments of larger
organizations. Xythos
recognized that rolling
out a successful SaaS
would involve more than
simply repackaging their
existing Enterpris
About Newsfeeds / Video Feeds
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
Complex event processing
and RIA used together
turbo charge application
development. In this
presentation we base our
story around real life
success in building a
real-time trading
application. A thrilling
demo is included.
Fueled by the explosive
growth in digital media
and user generated
content, the demand for
storage has increased
exponentially, placing
significant stress on
current 'in house'
storage architectures and
costly overcapacity
build-outs. Factoring in
time-to-market pressures
as well as po
In this presentation,
we'll introduce Laszlo
Webtop 1.2, a framework
built on OpenLaszlo for
delivering multiple
RIA/AJAX-based
communications and
collaboration
applications. Coupled
with Webtop's
breakthrough cinematic
user interface is a
corresponding
server-based SOA
framework that 
AJAX Data Services is a
JavaScript library that
lets AJAX developers
access the messaging and
data management
capabilities of Flex Data
Services directly from
JavaScript. It lets you
use Flex clients and AJAX
clients that share data
in the same messaging
application or
distributed data
Last year, the overall
demand for RIAs outpaced
the qualified supply
chain. Industry analysts
expect the explosive
growth to continue in
2008. Anthony Franco,
President, EffectiveUI,
will discuss how this
unprecedented increase in
RIA adoption - especially
by the Fortune 500 - will
ena 
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 
Enterprises are
enthusiastically
embracing the shift from
traditional client/server
computing to SaaS.
Inspired by customers who
have embraced the Web,
developers are using RIA
tools to create
innovative new on-demand
business applications.
One important factor in
the shift from tradit
This session will address
issues to consider when
selecting an AJAX toolkit
and the most effective
IDE for the
implementation. It will
identify the 30-40 UI
components most commonly
used in business and
mission critical software
applications that can be
used as a benchmark for
evaluati 
Microsoft introduced
Silverlight as
cross-platform,
cross-browser next
generation RIA solution.
No matter you have LAMP,
ASP.NET or JAVA Web
application, you can take
advantage of Silverlight
to impress your user with
the 'WOW' effects. This
session will use real
world implementations 
ASP.NET AJAX is a natural
candidate for RIA
development under the
.NET framework. However,
there are other
complementary or even
alternative technologies
that are worth your
consideration. This
session will start with a
brief market overview and
outline the pros and cons
of some of the
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
PHP is the server-side
technology behind the
majority of Web 2.0 sites
like Facebook, Flickr,
Technorati, Ning, and Web
2.0 applications like
IBM's QedWiki, Wordpress
and SugarCRM, the new
generation of Rich
Internet Applications
(RIAs). Zend's CTO Andi
Gutmans will explain the
three e
In this session, Laurence
Moroney, Microsoft, will
introduce Silverlight 2.0
and how it can be used to
easily and productively
build next generation
Rich Interactive
Applications using C#,
XAML, JavaScript, AJAX
and more. He will
demonstrate how to go
from Zero-to-Hero as well
as how t
Open source, open
platforms, open
development
environments... 'Open'
can mean a lot of things,
and the differences
between one 'open' and
another can be
significant. David
'Lefty' Schelsinger will
examine the various
aspects and uses of the
term 'open' as it relates
to the current evol
Many business developers
want to start using AJAX
by enhancing the forms in
their existing
applications. This
presentation will
demonstrate how to
quickly and easily add
AJAX capabilities to
standard HTML forms using
the Dojo toolkit. The
talk is geared to
developers who want to
enpowe 
Jeff Haynie will
introduce the audience to
Appcelerator's
open-source RIA platform.
Attendees will learn how
Appcelerator has been
able to help developers
create AJAX-based RIAs in
less than 1/3 of the
time, with up to 90
percent less code, and
with no Javascript or
third-party toolkit
Web Developers these days
should use libraries, for
the main reason that all
libraries want the same
thing: make it easier for
developers to think about
building their
applications rather than
worrying about quirks and
failures of Web browsers.
Some libraries go even
further in giving 
Come learn how to take
your UI to the next level
with Silverlight. You'll
see how powerful Zoomable
interfaces can be built
(hint: bring some 3D Red
and Blue glasses!), how
ink can be integrated
into your Web UI, how
internationalization is a
piece of sushi and how
rolling your own con
Caucho presents a new API
and infrastructure for
Enterprise Comet
applications which takes
care of issues such as
thread and session
management, while using
an interface familiar to
Java developers who have
used JavaEE Servlets.
Demos will be presented
which use this framework
and GWT 
'The experience that web
application users expect
has changed profoundly as
'RIA' style application
design has become
prevalent,' says
Microsoft's Joe Stagner.
'Companies developing web
applications can't wait
any longer to solidify
their Rich Internet
Application strategy.'
Stagner wa
From AIR to ZK, this is
an alphabetical round-up
of the fast moving-world
of application
development tools and
frameworks spawned ever
since the appearance of
Google Maps, the
canonical early RIA. The
list includes AIR,
Appcelerator, ATF, Curl,
Dojo, Echo, Eclipse RCP,
Flex, Grails, GW
A round-up of the overall
themes and topics being
presented at AJAXWorld
2008 East at The
Roosevelt Hotel in
midtown Manhattan, March
18-20, 2008 - including
Enterprise Mashups, Rich
Internet Applications,
Security, Enterprise
AJAX, Silverlight, GWT,
Reverse AJAX/'AJAX Push',
AIR/Flas 
In SYS-CON's annual
round-up of technology
predictions earlier this
year, Brad Abrams, a
Group Program Manager at
Microsoft, highlighted
the likelihood of what he
called 'the UX meme of
the consumer facing world
[leaking] into the
enterprise' and noted:
'The days of the
battleship gray
90+ speakers - March
18-20, 2008 - from Danny
Allan, Jean-Francois
Arcand, Roland Barcia,
Robb Beal, David Boloker,
Jeff Brown, Shane Bryzak,
Bob Buffone, Robert
Boedigheimer, Kurt Cagle,
Kord Campbell, Marco
Casario, Lauren Cooney,
Douglas Crockford...to
Scott Regan, David
Schlesinger 
