Ajax/RIA/Web 2.0

Ajax/RIA/Web 2.0

Apache hones Java RIA effort
The Apache Software Foundation on Tuesday is making Apache Pivot, a platform for building rich Internet applications in Java, an Apache Top-Level Project and also is releasing version 1.4 of the technology, the organization said Tuesday.
Paul Krill, January 2010

REST: Tying AJAX to the cloud
In December, I said that 2010 could be the year of AJAX and REST services. I wrote at some length about my own journey, which generated quite a bit of discussion, so I thought I would follow up that post by going into more detail about how I tie AJAX to the cloud.
Martin Heller, January 2010

Microsoft adds SSL to AJAX CDN
Microsoft has added SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support to the Microsoft AJAX CDN (Content Delivery Network), enabling SSL backing for scripts served off the CDN.
Paul Krill, November 2009

Now open source: Several of Google's JavaScript tools
Google has decided to release as open source several of its key application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications.
Juan Carlos Perez, November 2009

Spring 3.0 framework for Java to debut
Spring 3.0, a major upgrade to the popular open source Java development framework, is being introduced this week by SpringSource and features full REST support for rich Web applications as well as an expression language.
Paul Krill, October 2009

Ajax: Tools of the trade
Ajax has effectively launched a new era in JavaScript development, bringing with it a plethora of robust tools for the JavaScript programmer. Take a quick tour of the tools you could be using for JS development, debugging, testing, and more. You'll never code JavaScript in just a text editor again.
Nathaniel T. Schutta, May 2009

Building cloud-ready, multicore-friendly applications, Part 2: Mechanics of the cloud
What's all that airy stuff we're calling "the cloud"? Appistry's Guerry Semones explains the mechanics of how cloud platforms take your cloud-ready application code to the next level.
Guerry Semones, April 2009

Google to add 'every damn' service to Apps
Dave Girouard, president of Google's enterprise division, recently used Twitter to announce that all of the company's productivity and collaboration software will be available to Googe Apps users. Whether 'tweet' is the medium for messaging enterprise decision makers is up for debate.
Chris Kanaracus and Juan Carlos Perez, April 2009

REST for Java developers, Part 4: The future is RESTful
Find out why REST interfaces are foundational for emerging architectures such as the Semantic Web. Brian Sletten takes a big-picture view of REST, now and in the future, in this final article in his series.
Brian Sletten, April 2009

ActionScript for Java developers, Part 2
Like other dynamic languages, ActionScript has capabilities and usage patterns that could take a Java developer by surprise. In this second half of his guide to the differences between Java and ActionScript 3, Chet Haase discusses properties, dynamic behavior, and functions.
Chet Haase, March 2009

Write your own Twitter application
Catch the social-networking wave with the convenience of Java APIs. Using Apache Commons HttpClient, dom4j, and iText, create a servlet-based application that dynamically archives Twitter updates in a PDF document mirroring Twitter's look and feel.
Bruno Lowagie, March 2009

Asynchronous processing support in Servlet 3.0
The revolution didn't stop with Ajax, and the incoming Servlet 3.0 specification will prove it. Find out why Servlet 3.0's support for asynchronous processing is the next big leap forward for developing collaborative, multi-user applications for Web 2.0.
Dr. Xinyu Liu, February 2009

ActionScript for Java developers, Part 1
Java developers making the leap from Java syntax to ActionScript have been known to stumble, or at least bruise their fingers typing vars where none used to be. Chet Haase launches a two-part introduction to ActionScript 3's filthy rich syntax, and all the ways it differs (and doesn't) from good old Java code.
Chet Haase, February 2009

Introduction to the Dojo toolkit, Part 2: Infrastructure code
Ajax programming isn't all fun, all the time, and that's just where a bigger JavaScript framework comes in handy. In this second half of his introduction to the Dojo toolkit, Sunil Patil shows you how Dojo's muscle can help you overcome common Ajax challenges, while also providing the infrastructure for handling cross-browser compatibility, error handling, and data encoding.
Sunil Patil, February 2009

JavaFX: Could it be a contender?
InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes JavaFX 1.0 for a spin and concludes there's a market for it, alright, but maybe not the same market dominated by Flash.
Peter Wayner, February 2009

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