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Instantiations Adds Google Web Toolkit Support with GWT Designer
GWT has become the new favorite technology of tools providers. Instantiations, makers of visual design tools for SWT and Swing, has now added GWT support with the GWT designer.
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Atlas: Full Support and a New Version on the Horizon
Microsoft expects to release version 1.0 of Atlas by year's end with full 24/7 support. "It also means that the product has a committed servicing product lifetime of 10 years - which provides companies with the ability to depend on it for mission critical applications."
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Adobe Releases Flex SDK for Ruby on Rails
Adobe has released an SDK with four full examples for developing rich Internet applications using Rails and Adobe Flex technologies.
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Progress Towards "Java Browser Edition"
Earlier this year Ethan Nicholas proposed that Java needed a "Browser Edition" to compete with industry leading technologies such as Flash in the browser space. Ethan is back with a blog entry updating his progress on slimming down the install footprint of Java.
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A 30 Minute Flex Test Drive for Java Developers
In response to comments from an earlier piece on how Flex can transform the user experience of the web, Christophe Coenraets, a Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe, has written a 30 minute Flex test drive for Java developers.
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WebORB - Easily Makes Rails Models Accessible to Flex / Flash
A new Rails plugin, WebORB, ties together the worlds of Ruby on Rails and Adobe's Flex technologies in an easy manner.
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Towards the Optimal Javascript Inheritance Technique
Lead developer of the ThinWire Java-based RIA framework Joshua Gertzen has written an article going over existing approaches to implementing OO inheritance in Javascript and presents the solution they ended up using on their product.
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Opinion: Flex can transform the user experience on the web
Adobe's Christophe Coenraets, recently blogged on how Flex can transform the user experience on the web. The Flex SDK was recently made free, and combined with the ubiquity of the Flash VM, Flex could have a potential to be the platform of choice for ajax-style rich web development. Christophe stressed a number of features that are not unique by themselves yet valuable when used together.
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New Atlas Control Toolkit Released
Microsoft has released a new version of the Atlas Control Toolkit with 5 new controls: DynamicPopulate populates an element with HTML content from the server, FilteredTextBox prevents unwanted characters from being entered, PagingBulletedList adds paging to a bulleted list, PasswordStrength provides feedback about password strength as entered, and Rating displays a "4 out of 5 stars" interface.
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An Open Source Ajax Shootout
InfoWorld columnist Peter Wayner recently reviewed six of the most popular open source Ajax toolkits. He was curious if they were enterprise ready in comparison to commercial products such Backbase, JackBe, and Tibco's General Interface. The six open source projects covered were selected because each has a high-profile in the developer community and support of one or more stable organizations.
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Juggernaut: Real-time communication for your Rails views
Alex MacCaw Ruby on Rails releases Juggernaut, a Rails plugin that provides a real-time socket connection between Rails views and a message bus / data server.
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VistaFei Brings GUI Editing to Google Web Toolkit
Wirelexsoft has announced VistaFei, an Eclipse-based visual GUI editor for Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT UI's can be built using drag and drop from a Palette controls and WYSIWYG editing area. VistaFei provides more than 35 elements in the palette covering most developer's needs for AJAX application design.
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Ajax for JSF: ICEFaces Enterprise Edition 1.0
ICEsoft has released version 1.0 of ICEFaces Enterprise Edition. ICEFaces extends JavaServer Faces (JSF) allowing developers to write AJAX style web applications in pure Java without having to use Javascript. ICEFaces provides an Ajax Push technology that allows server changes to be "pushed" to browser based clients without traditional polling techniques.
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Google Web Toolkit Continues Gaining Momentum
XML.com and IBM DeveloperWorks recently featured articles introducingweb application development using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT was released at JavaOne in May of this year. Support of GWT has also recently been announced by both the IntelliJ and Netbeans Java IDE's.
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ZK Ajax Java Web Framework: Ajax with no Javascript
The ZK Ajax Framework allows developers to achieve Ajax style UI experiences in web applications without having to code in Javascript. Leveraging both a client and server engine, ZK enables developers to code the interaction of their UI's in pure Java.