InfoQ Homepage Web Frameworks Content on InfoQ
-
Lively Kernel: How Web Programming Should Have Been Done From the Beginning?
An experimental project initiated by Sun Microsystems, Lively Kernel is a new web programming environment written entirely in JavaScript which supports desktop-style applications with rich graphics and direct manipulation capabilities without the installation or upgrade requirements typical for conventional desktop applications.
-
Apache Wicket 1.3.1 Release Supports Transparent Clustering
The Wicket team has announced Wicket 1.3.1, the first maintenance release of Wicket 1.3. 1.3.1 adds transparent clustering support out-of-the-box.
-
Interview: Charles Nutter discusses JRuby
JRuby project lead Charles Nutter discusses how he got involved with JRuby, Sun's involvement with JRuby, how JRuby fits into enterprise-level web applications, the possibility of a friendly fork of the OpenJDK source code, reasons for switching to JRuby, the future of JRuby, Spring and JRuby, and the Ruby community as a whole.
-
Article: Converting a Web 1.0 Dashboard to Flex
In their article, Porting From Web 1.0 To Rich Internet Applications (RIA), James Ward and Shashank Tiwari walk through replacing a Web 1.0 interface with a rich Adobe Flex user interface.
-
Further Insights into Rhino on Rails
Dion Almaer has published a podcast of his interview with Steve Yegge, the creator of Rhino on Rails. Rhino on Rails is a Javascript port of the popular Ruby on Rails framework. It is currently under active development for internal use at Google. Steve Yegge and his team hope to make Rhino on Rails open source this summer.
-
Mark Pollack on Spring and Spring.NET
Mark Pollack, founder of Spring.NET, talks about shares ideas between the Java and .NET communities and the history of Spring.NET. Topics include how to use dependency injection and AOP for more than just logging and where Spring.NET overlaps with WCF.
-
Granite Data Services: Open Source Flex DS Alternative
Granite Data Services (GDS) is an open source alternative to Adobe’s LiveCycle Data Services and the recently open sourced Blaze Data Services. Last week, GDS reached production status with their 1.0 release. GDS is available under the LGPL license. InfoQ.com spoke with the GDS project founder, Franck Wolff, to learn more about the open source project.
-
Create Installers for ASP.Net Projects with MSBuild and VS 2008
Microsoft released the final RTW version of the Web Deployment Projects add-in for Visual Studio 2008. This add-in uses MSBuild to package pre-compiled ASP.NET web applications and sites for deployment.
-
Grails 1.0 Released: ORM DSL, Filters, REST and more
Grails 1.0 has been released. InfoQ spoke with Graeme Rocher, Grails project lead and co-founder, and CTO of G2One about the release of Grails 1.0 to deliver in-depth coverage about the feature-set, maturity, ease of use and future plans for Grails.
-
ExtJS Ecosystem Continues to Expand
New server-side tools are sprouting up around the ExtJS client-side Javascript framework. Community developed server-side support now exists for Java Enterprise Edition, Cold Fusion 8.0, Google Web Toolkit, and Ruby on Rails 2.0. The goal of all of these tools is to normalize the interface between their respective platforms and ExtJS.
-
The Road to Merb 1.0 with Ezra Zygmuntowicz
Merb is nearing a 1.0 release milestone and the team has some great changes in store for those people either using Merb today or planning on picking it up for a new project. Read what's coming soon.
-
Adobe Flex Basics
InfoQ.com has covered a number of advanced and intermediate topics on the who, how, and whys of the Adobe Flex development framework, including: Who Is Using Flex, Flex Misconceptions, The Proprietary Nature of Flash, and Open Source Flex Frameworks. Ted Patrick, a Technical Evangelist for Adobe, takes us back to the basics with his blog post, ‘What is Flex?’
-
In a World of Web Framework Choices, Some Developers Still Build Their Own
Many developers faced with too many choices when selecting a web framework prefer to make the easy choice of using the framework they have used in the past or build their own. This is especially true for Java frameworks, as Neal Ford finds out; he also puts this paradox of choice in the context of other languages and draws some interesting and debatable conclusions.
-
Python Web Framework on the JVM
Recently there has been a lot of news about numerous languages making their way onto the JVM, providing endless possibilities. Python has been around for years and its JVM implementation, Jython, hopes to bring a Python web framework to the JVM. It could prove to be what Rails is to Ruby and Grails is to Groovy.
-
Understanding Seam Nested Conversations and Timeouts
Jacob Orshalick recently explored Seam's nested conversation model and related timeouts using Seam's demo booking example.