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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.
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Atlas June CTP Released
Microsoft has released a new Community Tech Preview (CTP) of Atlas, Microsoft's AJAX framework for ASP.NET. Note that Atlas can also be used with other web technoloogies such as PHP or ColdFusion via the Atlas client-script libraries.
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Adobe launches Flex 2 RIA platform; Flex SDK is now free
Adobe has released Flex 2, its platform for ajax-style enterprise rich internet application development that runs on Flash, whose version 9 now includes Just-In-Time compiler. The Flex 2 is now free for developing and deploying Flex apps on the Flash runtime. An Eclipse-based IDE and enterprise messaging/data connectivity featuring real time messaging is also available for enterprise customers.
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OpenLaszlo Legals Preview Compiles to DHTML
The OpenLaszlo project has had a lot of attention in the Java community, being one of the first solutions for building rich internet applications via compiling XML apps into Flash SWF files. OpenLaszlo has released their first preview of OpenLaszlo Legals which can now compile RIA apps into DHTML.
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jMatter: Naked Objects with Swing, Hibernate, and Web Start
The jMatter framework, Eitan Suez' modern implementation of the Naked Objects Pattern using Swing, Hibernate, and deployed with Java WebStart, has been open-sourced this week. jMatter takes a domain model and then auto-produces 2-tier workgroup apps (Swing front-ends that talk to rdbms back-ends) intended to be used in a LAN or VPN environment.
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Real World Apps with Atlas Codecamp Video Published
Wrox author Wally McClure, was a featured speaker at Atlanta Code Camp on May 13, 2006, and presented a 43-minute, on-screen demo of building an Atlas application, that is now available for viewing. The video gives a good introduction of what is possible with Atlas.
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Occasionally Connected Clients ARCast
Ron Jacobs' latest ARCast with Jack Goldstein goes through SQL Everywhere and how to use it for the occasionally connected client. It also has some brief mentions about some of the cool new synchronization technologies that are coming up in Orcas. Overall a nice starting place if you want to start thinking about how to deal with the occasionally connect client in your architecture.
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Sun backs Dojo Ajax Toolkit; Joins OpenAjax Alliance
Sun has joined the Dojo foundation, as IBM did a couple of weeks ago. Sun has already been working with Dojo on the Java Pet Store (which is based on Dojo), and project Maki uses Dojo. Sun has also joined the OpenAjax Alliance.
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IBM Backs Dojo Ajax Toolkit
IBM earlier this month committed i18N support to the Dojo toolkit and has just announced its intention to continue contributing to Dojo, as well as joining the Dojo Toolkit foundation. IBM wil also be contributing accessibility and databinding code to Dojo.