InfoQ Homepage Web Frameworks Content on InfoQ
-
The Murky Future of ASP.NET AJAX
With Microsoft’s embrace of jQuery, one has to wonder what will happen to the other JavaScript libraries that they created. As it turns out, ASP.NET AJAX will continue to be supported while the newer ASP.NET Ajax Library will never see another bug fix. In a recent MIX article, Dave Ward clarifies the situation.
-
ASP.NET MVC 3 Go-Live License
Microsoft’s ASP.NET team has taken the Agile philosophy of Deploy Early, Deploy Often to heart. Close on the heels of ASP.NET MVC 2, version 3 beta has already been approved for production use. With a whole host of promising new features including the Razor syntax, this will be a hard release to ignore.
-
Scalatra: A Sinatra-like Web Framework for Scala
Scalatra is a Scala web framework that follows the principles of the Sinatra Ruby web framework. It was originally known as Step and it is the framework behind the RESTful backend that is used by LinkedIn Signal.
-
Microsoft Web Farm Framework, a Tool for Automating Operations Across a Server Farm
Microsoft Web Farm Framework (WFF) is a free IIS plug-in used to provision and manage systems in a web server farm, enabling the installation and configuration of software components across the farm plus support for automated deployment of ASP.NET applications.
-
Introducing Microsoft’s Dynamically Typed Data Access Library
In conjunction with WebMatrix, Microsoft’s new tool chain for amateur web developers, Microsoft is releasing a dynamically type data access library. Similar to the Jasper project, this library trades the performance for ease of use. The result is an ORM-like API, but without the overhead of configuration files or code-generated classes.
-
ASP.NET Reaches a New Milestone: ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1
Although ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 has not been announced yet, the framework can be downloaded from Microsoft downloads. The list of new features include: Dependency Injection, Razor View Engine, Dynamic View and ViewModel properties, and Global Filters.
-
Spring Aiming to Bring Grails-like Productivity to GWT Application Development With Roo
VMWare, Google partnership delivers GWT integration to Spring Roo.
-
WebMatrix: Microsoft's New Stack to Create Simple Websites
WebMatrix is a free tool from Microsoft putting together a web server, ASP.NET + Razor, SQL Server CE and an IDE for creating simple websites.
-
Four View Engines for ASP.NET MVC
With last week’s introduction of Razor, there are now four major view engine for ASP.NET MVC. The others are Spark, NHaml, and the traditional ASPX file templates. This article introduces the four engines with a special focus on the new Razor engine.
-
OpenFaces 3.0 Prerelease, JSF2.0 Compatible
Last month TeamDev had announced the pre release of OpenFaces 3.0. The official release of the 3.0 version is expected in June later this year. This intermediate milestone is a JSF 2.0 compatible version of OpenFaces. Versions 2.x are planned to be maintained in parallel with the 3.x versions while keeping the same features set in both branches.
-
Hobo 1.0 Builds on Top of Rails
Hobo, a collection of Ruby on Rails extensions designed to streamline Rails development, recently announced its 1.0 release. InfoQ spoke with project creator Tom Locke about the milestone.
-
Whither the GlassFish Gem? Alternatives for Deploying JRuby Web Applications
When Oracle released its GlassFish roadmap, a notable absence was the GlassFish gem. This gem-based server for Rails, Merb, and Sinatra applications has become a common deployment option for the JRuby platform and has been widely recommended to the JRuby community. The gem allows Rails users running in multithreaded mode to take advantage of the JVM by running multiple threads per server instance.
-
Deceptive Simplicity: Sinatra Turns 1.0
Since it appeared in late 2007, the lightweight Sinatra web framework has attracted enough interest that it now ranks first in Google search results for "Sinatra," above any results for Frank or Nancy. InfoQ spoke with Sinatra project founder Blake Mizerany to learn more about Sinatra and what the 1.0 release brings.
-
OSGi Enterprise Spec 4.2 released
<p>Today, the OSGi Alliance announced the release of the Enterprise OSGi 4.2 specification, along with the corresponding JavaDoc. Read on to find out what's new in the enterprise spec.</p>
-
WebSockets and Bayeux/CometD
There are two technologies which bring communication into browser-based applications at the moment; Bayeux (aka CometD) and more recently, WebSockets. Will one supersede the other, or are there sufficient differences for both to thrive?