A round-up of the overall themes and topics being presented at AJAXWorld 2008 East at The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, March 18-20, 2008 - including Enterprise Mashups, Rich Internet Applications, Security, Enterprise AJAX, Silverlight, GTW, Reverse AJAX/'AJAX Push', AIR/Flash/Flex, JavaFX, ASP.NET AJAX, Seam, JSF, iPhone, Social Applications, YUI, jMaki, Appcelerator, Curl and more...
The business value of RIAs is very clear: aesthetics do matter and users would like a pleasant experience. Good RIAs can provide your customers with user experiences that leave your competition in the dust. While most enterprise applications are based on old client/server technology with high cost of ownership and lack of flexibility, switching to the Web as a platform for mission-critical applications is very appealing – as it lowers the TCO significantly.
With a lineup of exceptional tech- and industry-savvy speakers, AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East in March offers dozens of high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives such as AIR/Flash/Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX, Appcelerator and Curl among others.
About Jeremy Geelan Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
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Clean AJAX wrote: Easy to
use AJAX framework that
uses messages to control
AJAX requests - provides
message queue, XSLT,
XPath, encryption (SHA1,
MD5), web service access
(SOAP, XMLRPC), JSON-RPC,
cross browser AJAX, AJAX
history and cache
control.
Oracle ADF wrote: Oracle
Application Development
Framework (ADF) is an
end-to-end J2EE framework
that simplifies
development by providing
out of the box
infrastructure services
and a visual and
declarative development
experience.
OpenXava wrote: OpenXava
is a full-stack framework
for developing
database-backed web
applications, like Ruby
on Rails, but OpenXava
produces standard J2EE /
JavaEE applications that
can be deployed and any
standard Java Application
Server (or standard Java
Portal).
OpenXava has been created
by Java developers (who
need developing Java
Enterprise applications
in a productive way) for
their own use; hence it's
powerful, extensible and
enjoyable by a Java
expert.
On the other hand
OpenXava allows to a new
Java developer to start
rapidly to be productive,
therefore is a pleasant
experience for beginners
too.
Gérard Ringenaldus wrote:
Jeremy Geelan asked for
Omissions to his list,
and I would like to add a
product called Novulo.
Novulo is the award
winning Visual Web
Development solution for
rapidly building and
easily deploying
AJAX-based web
applications.
Novulo allows you to
build web applications,
starting with the user
interface, the real
screens that customers
are going to use.
We generate the
application from the user
interface, and deploy
them automatically on any
LAMP or WAMP server.
Makumba wrote: Makumba is
a query-centric
technology designed by
BEST that helps you to
rapidly develop web
applications that keep
their data in a database
(i.e. data driven web
applications).
It is implemented in Java
and offers a JSP tag
library and a Java API to
the web app developer.
The technology has been
in use since late 2001,
and is being further
developed, based on
users' experience and
requests.
Django wrote: Django is a
high-level Python Web
framework that encourages
rapid development and
clean, pragmatic design.
Developed and used over
two years by a
fast-moving online-news
operation, Django was
designed to handle two
challenges: the intensive
deadlines of a newsroom
and the stringent
requirements of the
experienced Web
developers who wrote it.
It lets you build
high-performing, elegant
Web applications quickly.
DotNetNuke wrote:
DotNetNuke is a free,
Open Source Framework
ideal for creating
Enterprise Web
Applications. It is an
open source web
application framework
ideal for creating,
deploying and managing
interactive web, intranet
and extranet sites.
RIA Site wrote: If you
want a peek into the
future of RIAs (rich
Internet applications),
take a look at Tabblo
(tabblo.com). The model
that Tabblo has set into
motion for photographers
-- both amateur and
professional -- will soon
be adopted by enterprise
IT to empower its user
base.
GWT On Rails? wrote:
GWT-REST is an
asynchronous RESTful
client implementation for
GWT.
GWT-REST can be used
alongside GWT-RPC or as a
replacement for it. The
intent is to provide a
drop-in solution for
communicating with REST
web services that may or
may not be implemented in
Java.
A set of generic
interfaces is provided
along with
implementations for JSON
and Rails in this first
release.
RoR wrote: If you're
interested in Ruby on
Rails and how you can use
it to build sexy rich
Internet applications,
then you should join the
Ruby on Rails RIA mailing
list at Google Group.
Here's the link: http://g
roups.google.com/group/ad
obe-rubyonrails-ria-sdk
Grails vs Rails wrote:
Rails has zero enterprise
penetration, let's put
that out there right now.
Grails on the other hand
has enterprise
penetration and is only
growing.
Grails wrote: Grails is
an open-source web
application framework
that leverages the Groovy
language and complements
Java Web development. You
can use Grails as a
standalone development
environment that hides
all configuration details
or integrate your Java
business logic.
openJFX wrote: OpenJFX is
the site where
development of various
parts of JavaFX is
happening in the open.
For example, the compiler
that is being written for
JavaFX Script is being
developed at the OpenJFX
site, so that developers
interested in trying out
the early versions can
grab the latest copy for
themselves and even pitch
in with suggestions and
feedback for the
development group.
Thinlet wrote: Thinlet is
a complete GUI toolkit
for J2SE and Personal
Profile (e.g. J9 VM for
Pocket PCs). The new
version is completely
redesigned from ground
up, currently only a very
early alpha version is
available to introduce
its main features.
Helmi wrote: Helmi's Open
Source RIA Platform
permits client- and
server-side engineers to
work independently while
communicating effectively
through an
object-oriented
environment.
Today's end users demand
the rich, highly
interactive experience
that is the promise of
Web 2.0. At the core of
this experience are high
performance applications
powered by Rich Internet
Application (RIA) and
Asynchronous JavaScript
and XML (AJAX)
technologies.
Project Zero wrote:
Project Zero, an IBM
incubator project, is an
agile development and
execution environment
which leverages REST and
scripting runtimes to
speed and simplify
development and
deployment of dynamic Web
applications. Project
Zero includes a scripting
runtime for Groovy and
PHP with application
programming interfaces
optimized for producing
REST-style services,
integration mash-ups and
rich Web interfaces.
Google has taken its
Postini investment and
turned out Google Web
Security for the
Enterprise, which is
supposed to protect
against spyware, viruses
and zero-hour threats in
real-time whether the
user is on the corporate
network or working
remotely like at a hotel
or in an airpor
Microsoft, which spent $6
billion on aQuantive and
was chasing Yahoo for its
ads before it came to a
dead stop, has been
supporting - as in
helping write -
legislation in New York
and Connecticut that
would regulate the data
that companies like Yahoo
and Google collect for
target
So how does it feel to
have witnessed one of
technology's little
miracles this week? I
mean Yahoo's stock price
successfully defying
gravity. It's as close as
any of us will ever get
to an apparition of the
Virgin Mary floating on a
cloud without any visible
means of support. App
It's only taken Borland
two years but it's
finally dumped its
CodeGear tools division,
responsible for Borland's
hereditary JBuilder,
Delphi and C++ Builder
lines as well as its new
web ventures into PHP and
Ruby, said to be used by
7.5 million developers.
Embarcadero Technologie
Founded in 2006, SYS-CON
Media's 'Virtualization
Journal' is the world's
first magazine devoted
exclusively to what
Gartner has earmarked as
the single highest-impact
IT trend through 2012:
virtualization. And now
it will be available on
newsstands worldwide, as
SYS-CON Media see
Yahoo! founders Jerry
Yang and David Filo
received stupid advice
from their investment
bank advisers and blew
their chance to close the
deal with Microsoft as of
this Sunday morning.
Neither Yang nor Filo are
experts on how to sell a
company in a
multi-billion dollar
deal. They h
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Google has taken its
Postini investment and
turned out Google Web
Security for the
Enterprise, which is
supposed to protect
against spyware, viruses
and zero-hour threats in
real-time whether the
user is on the corporate
network or working
remotely like at a hotel
or in an airpor
Microsoft, which spent $6
billion on aQuantive and
was chasing Yahoo for its
ads before it came to a
dead stop, has been
supporting - as in
helping write -
legislation in New York
and Connecticut that
would regulate the data
that companies like Yahoo
and Google collect for
target 
So how does it feel to
have witnessed one of
technology's little
miracles this week? I
mean Yahoo's stock price
successfully defying
gravity. It's as close as
any of us will ever get
to an apparition of the
Virgin Mary floating on a
cloud without any visible
means of support. App
It's only taken Borland
two years but it's
finally dumped its
CodeGear tools division,
responsible for Borland's
hereditary JBuilder,
Delphi and C++ Builder
lines as well as its new
web ventures into PHP and
Ruby, said to be used by
7.5 million developers.
Embarcadero Technologie
Founded in 2006, SYS-CON
Media's 'Virtualization
Journal' is the world's
first magazine devoted
exclusively to what
Gartner has earmarked as
the single highest-impact
IT trend through 2012:
virtualization. And now
it will be available on
newsstands worldwide, as
SYS-CON Media see
