Tibco to open source, upgrade AJAX toolkit
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InfoWorld - Tibco Software on Monday is announcing its intention to offer its General Interface rich Internet application toolkit via an open source format.
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(InfoWorld) - Just ahead of this Thursday's Google Developer Day 2007 events, Google began offering on Tuesday a release candidate for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.4, an upgrade to the company's framework for writing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications in Java. Focused on improvements in speed and stability, version 1.4 features optimized output in which applications load faster. Developers can speed up existing Google Web Toolkit applications by recompiling with the 1.4 release candidate, which is downloadable here. The toolkit is intended to make it easier to write AJAX applications such as Google Maps and Gmail. No date has been set for the general release of version 1.4 "This is undoubtedly the biggest GWT release yet," said Bruce Johnson, a developer of the toolkit, in a blog. "In addition to 150-plus bug fixes, GWT 1.4 RC includes a ton of new features, improvements, and optimizations." An ImageBundle capability in version 1.4 creates a single composite image from many small ones, allowing for consolidation of HTTP requests. This improves application responsiveness, the company said. The composite image is permanently cacheable, which means users' time is not spent on bytes they already have, Google said. Version 1.4 also features an enhanced UI library with widgets that make it easier to build user interfaces. A RichText widget provides a simpler way to add sophisticated text-editing capabilities to applications while a SuggestBox widget offers auto-complete functionality that can be tailored to any need, Google said. HorizontalSplitPanel and VerticalSplitPanel capabilities enable resizing of portions of the user interface. Benchmarking functions in the toolkit integrate with the JUnit testing framework, so developers can record and compare the speed of code snippets across different parameters. Internationalization and localization support has been improved with NumberFormat and DateTimeFormat capabilities, which allow developers to parse and format numbers, dates, and times for users worldwide, Google said. The toolkit was launched a year ago and has been used to build products, such as Google Checkout, for online shipping. Google made the toolkit available in an open source format, via an Apache 2.0 license, later in 2006. The company noted that the creators of the toolkit, Johnson and Joel Webber, will speak at Google Developer Day 2007, in San Jose, Calif. on Thursday. Google Developer Day events also are being held in 10 locations around the world for users of Google APIs and developer tools. Places such as Sao Paolo, Brazil; London, and Paris also will host Google developer events on Thursday. Featured on the agenda are discussions on technologies such as Google AJAX APIs, the Google Maps, YouTube APIs, and mashups.
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Winter '07 will feature a new user interface based on Ajax, a group of software development tools and standards that help create interactive Web applications.
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On the ProDevTips.com website, there's a new tutorial (part one of a series) that walks the developer through the integration of the Zend Framework, some Ajax functionality and Smarty to create a feed reader.   In this series I will walk you through the code of a site that uses only Ajax and Scriptaculous to handle it's completely windowed interface. Making an interface like this is not really good design, it's only done here for the sake of teaching. It is kinda cool though. Especially if you have a big screen.   The source code is available for download and having it makes the installation and setup of the system much simpler. With it, you're only about fifteen steps away from getting the application up and running.
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JasperSoft&#39;s next upgrade of its open-source business intelligence suite, due out Nov. 1, will improve the ability for users to create their own customized reports.JasperSoft&#160;has found that the end-users of a BI system often need a developer&#39;s help to create more complex reports, said Paul Doscher, JasperSoft&#39;s CEO. That takes time away from the developer that could be used to work on other IT projects.&quot;The last thing the developer wants to do is develop reports,&quot; Doscher said.With the new release, Business Intelligence Suite 2.1, JasperSoft has expanded the ability for someone in the accounting department to customize their own BI Web portal to generate new kinds of information, Doscher said. Previously, end-users could build simple reports, but &quot;we want to make this more sophisticated,&quot; Doscher said.For example, an accounts payable clerk can drag and drop elements within the BI Web portal to produce a report showing which customer has the most receivables. Previously, that job would have required the clerk to dictate to the developer what kind of report is needed, and the developer would build it, Doscher said.JasperSoft has also expanded the range of calculations the software can perform, he said.JasperSoft&#39;s open-source BI tools are integrated by developers for use with other applications and even hosted CRM (customer relationship management) services such as Salesforce.com and SugarCRM. Customers set up their customized charts and graphs that give information about their business through a Web portal or another application.Businesses such as telecommunications companies use JasperSoft to analyze trends in their billing data. The University of Nebraska, another JasperSoft customer, uses the suite to analyze information on students stored in large databases.JasperSoft&#39;s products are free to download, and the company makes money by selling support packages. Doscher said JasperSoft has about 7,000 paying customers, of which 70 percent are companies with revenue of $1 billion and below.JasperSoft focuses on the small to medium-size businesses, where Doscher said there is the most growth now for BI products.&#160;
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(InfoWorld) - Icesoft Technologies announced availability of Icefaces 1.6.0, an upgrade to the company's AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development environment positioned for building of Web 2.0 applications, on Tuesday. Featured in the open-source product is integration with the JBoss Seam 1.2 development framework for Java. Icesoft describes Seam as a framework for Web 2.0 application development with Web 2.0 characterized as enabling collaboration. "Web 2.0 relies on the rich user interface capabilities. Web 2.0 also needs collaborative capabilities," said Steve Maryka, CTO at Icefaces. Icefaces is based on JSF (JavaServer Faces) but features AJAX. Developers use JSF components and get interactivity based on AJAX. In addition to supporting AJAX, Seam leverages JSF, Enterprise JavaBeans, Java Portlets and business process management. With Seam, developers can assemble Web applications with annotated Plain Old Java Objects, componentized UI widgets, and little XML, Icesoft said. Icefaces 1.6.0 also features source code examples, such as the Icefaces + Seam Component Showcase that illustrates an Icefaces component suite functioning within a Seam-based application. Other features in version 1.6.0 include incorporation of Icesoft's Enterprise Production Suite for handling asynchronous push-style communications with a Web application. Previously available via a commercial license, Enterprise Production Suite is now part of the open-source Icefaces platform. Integration between Icefaces 1.6.0 and the Liferay Portal engine enables placement of portlets that can be updated without having to refresh an entire Web page. Compliance with the OpenAjax Hub in Icefaces provides interoperability between JavaScript libraries. An AJAX bridge in version 1.6.0 prevents security violations based on cross-site request forgery exploits. Other improvements include support for the Glassfish, SAP NetWeaver 2007, and Webtide Jetty application servers as well as integration with Spring Web Flow technology and support for Apache MyFaces Tomahawk components. Icesoft sells support subscriptions to Icefaces with basic support starting at $2,500 and enterprise-level support priced at $10,000.
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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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AJAX Toolkit Framework upgrade to help consolidate frameworks and extend supported browsers.
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InfoWorld - With a new release of its business process management software available Wednesday, Tibco Software said it is enabling a tighter link with SOA and delivering a more integrated user experience.
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According to this latest blog entry, Joshua Eichorn has released the latest version of his PEAR package combining PHP and Ajax - HTML_AJAX 0.3.4.    HTML_AJAX 0.3.4 was released today, it contains lots of bug fixes so if you use HTML_AJAX youâll want to upgrade.  Release notes and testing results are available on the wiki, and the examples are available online if you want to see some of the basic features.    According to the Changelog some of the fixes include: an update to assignAttr in HTML_AJAX_Action, Request timeouts errors, std input when HTTP_RAW_POST isn't set, and a few more. You can get this latest release here...
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On Dotvoid.com, there's a new post that reminds us of two of the more "ajaxified" features of the new releases of PHP 5 (like 5.2) - the JSON extension and the functionality to track file uploads.   These features aren't competing for the heavy weight title in the release notes. Still, having these implemented in PHP makes it a lot easier to develop modern, more responsive, web based applications.   You can get more info on the JSON extension here and an example of the file upload monitor in this entry on the Bitflux blog.
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ActiveMatrix reloaded Tibco last week announced the general availability of TIBCO ActiveMatrix for service-oriented architectures (SOA). This is the industry's first âservice virtualization platformâ for the deployment and governance of composite applications based on distributed, standards-based services".â¦
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Joshua Eichorn is back today with the answers to the questions as posed by the readers of his blog previously.   Your AJAX answers from my AJAX questions post are below, I hope everyone finds them helpful.   The questions answered include:  How can I find out whether a connection is broken? Why would you want to use HTML_AJAX when there are far better tools for the job, pure javascript solutions such as prototype or jquery? What is the best way to 'degrade' a website when Javascript/XMLHttpRequest support is disabled? When utilizing an AJAX API such as Google Maps, how do you execute embedded Javascript commands in a page generated on-the-fly?    ...as well as a few more. Where appropriate, he also includes code to help illustrate his point.
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Auto-Gen CSS FormsadebugFox captchasecShieldImage ResizerPage Rating Classl10nFuerte Image ToolOsiris CoreOsiris CoreArZipStrOTP_TSArZipStrDBNavigatorWAP PushphpTubegCachePaging Class with AJAX or HREF
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The latest version of the CodeIgniter framework has officially been released - version 1.6:   EllisLab is proud to announce the release of CodeIgniter 1.6, our open source web application framework.  The release marks a new turn in the development of the framework, and has received considerable attention from both EllisLab developers and the community.   There's lots of new features in this new release including a Database Forge class, improvements to their Active Record implementation, an extendable Model class, and the addition of extendable Helpers.   You can find out more about the framework on the project's homepage or just head straight to the downloads section and grab the latest updates.
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Richard Thomas has decided to change the name of his project from the generic "Pjq" to something a bit more distinctive - jQPie.   I have expanded on this further, found a tastier name and now have a project page up http://projects.cyberlot.net/trac/jqpie/wiki. Added an cheesy jQuery/Interface autocomplete example although I would of preferred a json approach to the xml but it works never the less.   The jQPie project provides a way to link Javascript and PHP easily through the jQuery library with simple requests to use things JSON statements and direct output in your Javascript application.
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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.