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Dojo Toolkit 1.0 is Released with Google Gears Integration, Accessibility Support and Charting
The Dojo Foundation has released Dojo Toolkit 1.0. Dojo is used in products from companies such as AOL, BEA, IBM, and Sun Microsystems.
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Interview: Joe Walker discusses DWR
InfoQ spoke with Joe Walker at QCon London 2007 about the DWR toolkit. Walker discussed DWR 2.0 including new features such as details about reverse AJAX, the deal with TIBCO, DWR support in IDEs, the integration with Spring, future plans for DWR, and interesting applications of DWR from the very large to the very flashy.
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Client side load balancing of Ajax applications
Traditional approaches to load balancing have focused on server side solutions. Lei Zhu recently proposed an approach where the load balancing logic for a clustered Ajax application resides in the client tier, and describes how an application built on Amazon's S3 and EC2 services has successfully employed the technique.
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Support Multiple AJAX Frameworks with OpenAjax Hub
From time to time web developers may find that they need to leverage more than one Ajax framework in a single web site. Perhaps they are working on mashups or portals, or maybe they simply cannot do everything they need with a single framework. Whatever the reason, OpenAjax Hub is the solution to their problem.
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Firebug aids Mashup Development
Phil Rees has written an introduction to Firebug using the Google Mashup Editor (still in limited beta) and his DanceMaps mashup. He walks through everything from CSS to Yahoo! Pipes and how Firebug helps web development.
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Nexaweb Enterpise Web 2.0 Released with Visual Editor and Debugging Enhancements
Nexaweb has announced the latest release of their Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite, an application development and deployment platform for building Rich Client, Composite and Enterprise Mashup applications in JEE environments.
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ExtJS Creator Jack Slocum Discusses Upcoming 2.0 Release
The ExtJS team recently released the alpha release of version 2.0 of the JavaScript/Ajax framework. InfoQ caught up with ExtJS creator Jack Slocum to discuss the release.
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JBoss RichFaces 3.1: Ajax4JSF and Exadel RichFaces integrated as single open source library
JBoss, a division of RedHat, recently released version 3.1 of the RichFaces JSF library. Stemming from a partnership with Exadel, this release is the first one to integrate the Ajax4JSF project with the formerly commercial RichFaces. InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about RichFaces and what this release brings to the JSF space.
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The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Has Been Updated
The AJAX Control Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 has been updated. Nothing new was added, but the bug fixes are sure to be welcome. In related news, a VS 2008 Beta 2 compatible version was also released with a couple of interesting features. And in case you did not know, they are now accepting patches.
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A Fix for ASP.NET AJAX on the iPhone
According to Matt Gibbs, the 1.01 update to iPhone degrades the asynchronous features of Microsoft's AJAX library, specifically in its JSON serializer. Matt has provided instructions on how to fix this by altering the regular expressions used in the library.
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jQuery UI 1.0 Includes Mouse Interaction, User Interface Extensions, and Effects Features
As promised last week the jQuery team has released jQuery UI 1.0. jQuery UI is a fully themed interaction and widget library built on top of jQuery.
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jQuery Gaining Traction With 1.2 and jQuery UI
jQuery is quickly becoming the Ajax library of choice for many. jQuery 1.2 was released yesterday and has many new features. A preview/teaser of jQuery User Interface was shown as well.
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TrimPath Junction - Bringing Rails Style MVC to JavaScript
TrimPath Junction has been quite active since it was reinvigorated by Google Gears back in July. A new OnLamp walkthrough showcases the project which bring Rails style MVC to JavaScript.
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Presentation: Scott Davis on Real World Web Services
In this presentation, recorded at the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium, Scott Davis provides a pragmatic, down-to-earth introduction to Web services as used in the real world by public sites, including SOAP-based, REST and POX-style examples. While the buzzword density leaves nothing to be desired, the presentation contains a very accessible introduction to the core Web services standards.
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Analyzing JavaScript in Respect to Performance
In a new article Kirk Pepperdine has taken a detailed look at the topic of JavaScript performance. The article looks at common areas such as getters/setters, memory leaks, and bad micro benchmarking.