Nexablog

Just finished checking in the last of the updates (minus bug fixes) for the new Ajax IMB Client, after a week of straight coding and little else. The new version has been completely rewritten from the ground up. This coincides with Nexaweb’s upcoming release (in a month or so) of an updated version of the Ajax Client. The Ajax Client codebase will be completely updated and run over dojo 1.2. All the coding for these updates follow six principles:

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Over the last few months Nexaweb has been working on the dojo.E project and we just released the first version. dojo.E is designed to be a small JavaScript library that developers use in conjunction with the dojo toolkit. Completely open source the library is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

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I attended this same conference exactly one year ago and the difference was pretty obvious: the way people are thinking about Ajax has changed dramatically. It’s something that I’ve been noticing for a while now, since I’m an avid reader of dozens of Ajax and RIA blogs and social news sites. But after talking to hundreds of developers literally 1 year apart, it was even clearer. Ajax is no longer being viewed as the “silver bullet” for the mess of problems that developing a web application creates. The hype and buzz is still there, but the expectations are a lot more realistic.

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I have been with Nexaweb for 5 years now and have seen lots of movements in the RIA market. Back in the day (03) it was Nexaweb, Altio, Curl, and a handful of other players. Then came the Ajax Wildfire of ‘5 and focus shifted to leveraging open web technologies for application presentation. The benefit to the RIA market was that the focus was on the presentation; the problem was that it was focused on JavaScript. Need to have an Ajax offering to be in the conversation.

The RIA market now resembles a forest after a real wildfire, lots of small saplings and pretty flowers (AKA Open source projects and startups) but the strong sturdy trees that will sustain the ecosystem still haven’t emerged.

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Over the last year at Nexaweb we have been working hard at building a community of developers that can take advantage of our products to solve their most important problems. I personally traveled the Globe in search of developers and talked to everyone from Web Designers to System Integrators to Architects and everyone in between. Last January, I started out at a NOVAJug meeting and ended the year at the JavaPolis conference, in between I attended a bunch of conferences and other user groups.

Some of the things I learned on the trip:

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