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JQuery Gains Live DOM Binding with Live Query Plugin
Live Query is a new plugin for jQuery that lets you register events or fire callbacks for matching DOM elements. The binding not only applies to elements that exist in the page at load time but also elements that are added later via Ajax.
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Dojo 0.9 Goes Final with Significant Performance Improvements
Dojo 0.9 final version was released today after close to 7 weeks in beta release. This release scales down the code base, removing unnecessary items. At the same time significant performance improvements have been made.
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Prototype 1.6 RC Includes DOM Builder and Event API Overhaul
Earlier this month the Prototype team released the first RC of 1.6.0. This release contains a number of core API upgrades, bug fixes, and new features. The Event API has been overhauled and a new DOM Builder API has also been added.
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Promesh.NET - an MVC Web Framework for .NET
Philippe Leybaert recently released a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for creating .NET 2.0 web applications, named ProMesh.NET. The framework was released on Codeplex under an open source license. MVC frameworks have gained popularity lately with Ruby on Rails and most recently with the Castle Project and MonoRails, also an MVC framework.
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Bringing MVC to JavaScript - SproutCore
SproutIt has released SproutCore a new full MVC application framework for JavaScript. . It is designed to be run against any server back-end setup. InfoQ set out to discover what makes SproutCore different by interviewing creator, Charles, Jolley.
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Struts 2 Experiments with Hot Deployable Plugins
Apache Struts, the ubiquitous Java web application framework, received a promising feature that permits hot-deployable plugins. Struts developer, Don Brown, revealed last week that work had begun on allowing plugins to be added, removed and upgraded instantly, without the need to restart the entire application.
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Is Selenium worth the pain?
Is Selenium worth the pain? Atlassian developer Nick Menere has asked that very question on the Atlassian Developer Blog. In his blog post Menere looks at the roadblocks found while trying to use Selenium to test two new Ajax features of JIRA 3.10.
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Laszlo Supports Integration of Web Services with Webtop
Laszlo Systems continues to carve out their niche in the RIA space with growth in the end user, developer, and customer bases for OpenLaszlo. In addition, they have strengthened their product suite with their recently announced enterprise offering, Laszlo Webtop.
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Java and Web Application Development: Is Too Much Abstract A Bad Thing?
RedMonk analyst, Michael Coté, has written a lengthy opinion piece comparing Java web application development to development with frameworks such as Rails and Django. He suggests that Java applications often are developed having a "view" which is the web while other frameworks embrace the web more at their core.
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Google Gears Continues Momentum with ORM API and Support From Popular Javascript Projects
The Google Gears team recently blogged about their roadmap and development process. It covers what the focus will be for the next few months and emphasizes their plan to keep Gears' development out in the open. The first (official) version of the GearsORM project has also been released.
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A Comparison of Push vs Pull Ajax
Based on their experimental study, Engin Bozdag, Ali Mesbah and Arie van Deursen of the Delft University of Technology have compiled a technical report on the trade offs in Push versus Pull approcahes to achieve real-time event notifications in AJAX applications.
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QnA on SubSonic
SubSonic is a .NET Open Source project modeled after Rails. Think of it as a Swiss Army knife for building websites and working with data in Object-Relational fashion. Eric and Rob favored InfoQ with insight into their creation.
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jQuery: A new way to write JavaScript for rich web UI
jQuery is a JavaScript Library that simplifies traversing HTML documents, handling events, performing animations, and adding Ajax interactions to web pages. jQuery provides an API to develop feature rich web UI much faster and with fewer lines of code than the traditional JavaScript.
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Interview: Spring Web Flow with Keith Donald
Spring Web Flow (SWF) is a framework for modelling and controlling the execution of multi-step work flows in web applications. Flows often execute across HTTP requests, have state, exhibit transactional characteristics, and may be dynamic and/or long-running in nature. In this interview, SWF co-lead Keith Donald talks about how Spring Web Flow works.
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Seam 2.0 Beta Adds Groovy and Experimental GWT Support
Three months after the release of Seam 1.2.1, Seam 2.0 has been released as beta. Major enhancements have been made to Seam Asynchronicity, including Quartz integration. Seam components may also now be written in Groovy.