Google Offers Open-Source AJAX Toolkit
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Hoping to spur development of websites using the AJAX development platform, Google on Tuesday released the Google Web Toolkit. The platform would allow those with knowledge of Java to create browser compliant JavaScript and HTML easily.
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The recently rediscovered Ajax technique makes the client side of web programming much more useful and pleasant. However, it also means revising your existing web applications to take advantage of this new power. Dominic Mitchell shows how to use CGI::Ajax to give your Perl applications access to this new power.
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Google is in the online ad-service business. Why does it lavish attention on software developers and open-source projects? Kicking offline Web apps into gear
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Google Inc. on Thursday announced a new test service that allows people to use mobile phones or handheld devices to tap Google's Web search via text messages, or short message service.
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Free and independent Ajax developers are turning away from commercial development tools and opting for free, open source alternatives.â¦
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Blog: New Google Maps feature lets people create customized maps with content from different mashup sites
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Criticizing Google and Yahoo as not transparent enough, Jimmy Wales plans an open-source search project that allows more user input.
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Google Inc. on Thursday announced a new test service that allows people to use mobile phones or handheld devices to tap Google&#39;s Web search via text messages, or short message service.
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(InfoWorld) - Sun Microsystems will shine more light on accommodations for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) in the Java realm at the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. next week. Featured on Sun's agenda are the latest details on Project jMaki and Project Phobos, which are two open source efforts. The company also will provide an update on the future of Sun's JavaServer Faces (JSF) component model for Web application development, said Sun's Greg Murray, AJAX architect with the company and the project lead for jMaki. Sun's AJAX efforts focus on making JavaScript more available to Java developers, Murray said. "The problem is, people are afraid of JavaScript," he said. "If we want to keep Java relevant, we have to support this newer programming model [scripting]," Murray said. Web 2.0 and AJAX are very important to Sun, Murray said. The next version of Java, Java Standard Edition 6, will support JavaScript and is expected some time in 2007. Sun's accommodations with JavaScript will make AJAX simpler, said analyst Rikki Kirzner, CEO of Centennial Global Research. "You should be able to make AJAX simpler than it is," she said. AJAX currently lacks accommodations with Java, according to Kirzner.Â  "AJAX is a way to add richness to 3GL code, to any code, and Java doesn't readily embrace it," Kirzner said. The jMaki project enables Java developers to use JavaScript in Java applications as either a JSP (Java Server Pages) tag library or a JSF component. "It's a way of wrapping some of the existing JavaScript frameworks out there and exposing them to Java developers," Murray said. Developers can access Dojo and other frameworks.Â  A Dojo widget could be included in a page, for example. "Basically, jMaki will generate all the JavaScript, everything necessary to put that in the page for you," Murray said. A beta release of jMaki is planned for release in November. "We've been working away just to polish the edges," said Murray. A general release is expected in January or February 2007. Phobos is a way to script server-side code in JavaScript, rather than write a JSP page or a servlet, Murray said. The technology is planned for release early next year. Sun anticipates making jMaki and Phobos add-ons to the Java Enterprise Edition 5 platform. The future of JSF, meanwhile, involves an upgrade being called Project Dynamic Faces or JSF 2.0. This version will extend the component model for server-side components to better support AJAX, Murray said. This release is driven by feedback from users who seek AJAX functionality but want a strict programming model for the server, which JSF provides, Murray said. Dynamic Faces has been available in an early access release since the May timeframe.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Google is set to unveil the Gears open source tool set for developing Web applications that can be used offline.
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In the next edition of their IRC Talks series, the PHP Thinktank-ers has posted the logs of the latest discussion for last week - a look at Ajax.   Some of the topics that were mentioned in this week's talk include:  what Ajax is/who uses it javascript libraries that support it a look at some of the technology (XMLHttpRequest, responseXML, responseText) that make up an Ajax message.    Be sure to check out the other talks on their blog including a PHP-GTK talk one and a look at the SPL in PHP.
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Google launched a specialized search engine designed to find software source code publicly available on the Web.
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Google released a free tool today that lets people simultaneously search the Web and their personal computers for information, a move analysts described as a potential blow to rivals. -The Washington Post
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Google's next move may be to add a browser offering to its portfolio of  Internet products. A New York Post news report suggests that the  search-engine giant has added employees to develop such a technology based on  the open-source Mozilla browser.
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Google is testing a new Web service intended to become a repository of knowledge from experts on various topics, one that could turn into a competitor to Wikipedia and other sites.
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In this latest post from our sister site, AjaxDeveloper.org, today, there's a note from Joshua Eichorn's blog about the latest release of his PEAR package and the new site he's started for it.    HTML_AJAX 0.3.0 is huge leap forward from the previous versions, although it still remains mostly backward compatible with earlier releases.  One of the most important and exciting changes with HTML_AJAX 0.3.0 is the addition of three new developers who have been putting a lot of time into the project. They totally eradicated every item on the original todo list, and the feature roadmap has jumped ahead.    He mentions a few other issues that were resolved as well as some new features added - plus the introduction of the wiki page for the project...
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(InfoWorld) - SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web application development can be roller skates for the Web; it must be used appropriately or it can be dangerous, said Jesse James Garrett, the IT consultant credited with coining the term "AJAX." Garrett gave a keynote presentation at the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo on Tuesday morning. While noting the benefits of AJAX, chiefly its enabling of asynchronous interaction over the Web, Garrett cautioned that AJAX is not usable in all instances. It is similar to how it would not be good to roller skate around a shopping mall, he said.  "We're going to introduce AJAX into places where it doesn't belong," said Garrett, who is director of User Experience Strategy and a founding partner of Adaptive Path. Afterward, Garrett elaborated. "I think a lot of people are trying to use AJAX for doing kind of more dynamic content navigation -- the stuff that the Web is already pretty good at, and that's a place where it starts to break down," Garrett said. This use of AJAX breaks the conventions of the "back" button, he said. Garrett's roller skate assessment struck a chord with attendee Vera Algoet, a Web developer at the Monterey County Office of Education. Although not currently an AJAX developer, Algoet cited the possibilities of fun and danger with using AJAX. "I havenât done any [AJAX development] yet, but I've read some things about security concerns," she said. But AJAX offers the possibility of improved applications, Algoet said. "I just want to make better applications" that are easier to use, she said. Recalling the genesis of the term "AJAX," Garrett said his company was hired by a large insurance company to improve an application to capture more business. Setting about trying to find a solution for responsiveness on the Web, Flash was first thought of as a solution, he said. But it became apparent there was a different way to approach the problem. "We built a prototype of this approach, we tested it with the insurance agents, and the response was overwhelmingly positive," Garrett said. "We actually had people laughing out loud with delight at processing an insurance policy." To persuade the insurance company president to fund the project with $2 million, Garrett came to the conclusion that he needed an easier way, just one word, to encapsulate what he was trying to do. He then came up with the word, AJAX. Garrett noted that AJAX is a concept involving asynchronous interaction and the use of browser-native technologies. Communicating the importance of these applications is critical, he stressed. "The challenge for us in designing these AJAX applications is in figuring out how to communicate to users the possibilities of using these applications," Garrett said. AJAX, he said, allows for incremental migration. "With AJAX, we can apply it in bits and pieces. We can incrementally migrate components of this new application to this new model where it makes sense, rather than having to move the whole thing all at once," said Garrett. Additionally, AJAX developers are able to learn from each other's approaches. While AJAX technologies have been around for a while, it was not until 2005 that everybody got behind this approach, Garrett said. This was because the end of the browser war presented a relatively stable landscape and scripting languages became prominent. The innovation posed in the AJAX-based Google Gmail and Google Maps applications also contributed, he said. AJAX usage figures presented by Evans Data at the conference show a promising future. About 1.7 million developers now use it and another 1.9 million have evaluated it or plan to use it, according to Evans. An Adobe official at the show stressed that Adobe's Flex and Flash technologies can work with AJAX rather than rival it. "Flex and the Flash platform [are] not here at all to replace or try to compete with AJAX," said Christophe Coenraets, senior technology evangelist at Adobe. "Flex and AJAX work together to deliver the right experience," he said. Coenraets also briefly discussed Adobe's planned Apollo technology for running browser-based applications outside of a browser. This technology, which currently is an alpha stage of development, enables users to run Flex and Flash applications offline and allows access to local resources. JackBe at the conference unveiled its Presto REA (Rich Enterprise Application) platform, for delivering enterprise AJAX applications that are based on SOA and Web services. "It provides a governed access to SOA services," said Rob Vonderhaar, vice president of marketing at JackBe. The platform goes into a beta release in November, with general availability planned for the first quarter of 2007.