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Trumpeting it as the
filling of 'a key last
hole in the Google Apps
suite,' Matt Glotzbach,
product management
director for Google
Enterprise, heralded the
arrival of Google Sites -
exclusively available in
Google Apps - but early
reactions have included
industry bloggers who are
not o
WaveMaker announced the
release of its WaveMaker
Visual AJAX Studio
version 3.1.1 for
building Enterprise Web
2.0 applications.
WaveMaker's Visual AJAX
Studio lets users create
database-driven AJAX Web
applications without
having to write complex
code. New WaveMaker
features significan
GI powers apps that look
and feel and perform like
classic desktop programs
but run in the browser
and Fortune-scale
companies currently use
it for rapid web
application development
and deployment on top of
their XML and SOAP data
sources. Hakman is on the
steering committee of the
Ope 
Anytime you can create a
blog post about the .NET
Framework that also
includes borrowed
half-quotations from Lord
of the Rings, you've got
to take that opportunity.
Like pretty much every
other RIA developer, I am
sitting back anxiously
awaiting the arrival of
Silverlight 2.0. Silverli
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
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 
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.
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
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 
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 
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 
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
One of the big challenges
to success with
enterprise application
deployments is securing
active user
participation.
Applications have
historically been
difficult to use, and
user interfaces have been
slow to catch up with
modern Web 2.0 and
Smartphone technologies.
Dispelling this stod
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 
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
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
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
The Web 2.0 movement has
created a paradigm shift
in enterprise platforms -
the emergence of
Web-based platforms that
let developers build
innovative,
revenue-generating
applications for targeted
demographics. Developers
will capitalize on these
platforms to build
applications based on
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 
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
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 
As more traditional sites
adopt Web 2.0
technologies including
AJAX, Web Services, SOA
and PHP to perform online
transactions one thing is
certain--- these new
technologies bring
security issues and
ignoring them could lead
to serious breaches.
Watchfire will
demonstrate and discuss
th 
Project Zero is an agile
development and execution
environment which
leverages REST and
scripting runtimes to
speed and simplify
development of dynamic
Web applications. Project
Zero includes a scripting
runtime for Groovy and
PHP with application
programming interfaces
optimized for p
Eighteen months ago Flex
2 was released, which
literally changed the way
people think of rich
Internet applications.
Since then lots of things
have happened in the Flex
community. In 2007 Adobe
announced that Flex will
go open source, and now
it has happened. All
ActionScript 3 and Ja
'This is an exciting time
for Adobe, for innovation
in software, and for
designers and developers
who are driving the Web
forward,' said Adobe CTO
Kevin Lynch today as
Adobe announced the
availability of Adobe AIR
and Adobe Flex 3
software, furthering the
Adobe technology platform
for 
Ulitzer.com which
initially made the
headlines with its 'job
descriptions from the
future,' announced that
it will launch its
Ulitzer 'beta' site on
July 4, 2008, with 5,500
authors and 600,000
original articles,
published in more than
5,000 topic-specific
online journals. Each
journal 
It is clear that RIAs
offer the potential to
fundamentally change the
user experience and in
doing so, yield
significant business
benefits. However, in
order for RIAs to be
widely employed, and for
more companies to receive
these kinds of returns,
technologies to build
RIAs will need t
Enterprise mashups - the
convergence of Web 2.0
mashups and
service-oriented
architecture (SOA) - can
create a world of
opportunities for
enterprises to come up
with internal and
customer-facing
self-service, composite
and 'situational'
applications. These
applications can be
created j
I am always being told
off by i-technologists
for quoting Picasso as
having said that
computers are useless.
But I still love his
reasoning: 'Because they
can only give you
answers.' Picasso, like
AJAXWorld Magazine, liked
questions. So we thought
we would share with you
what some of t
If you are starting a new
AJAX project, I highly
recommend that you watch
the video of a
presentation made by an
expert AJAX developer
Joseph Smarr from Plaxo.
Joseph is very
experienced AJAX
developer, and if after
watching this
presentation you don't
get goose bumps, go ahead
and sta
