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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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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This week we got two nice pieces of coverage.

Intelligent Enterprise
Nobody Starts from Scratch on Rich Internet Apps
2/14/08
By: Nelson King
URL: http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2008/02/nobody_starts_f.html

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Also interesting are Anthony Bradley’s comments from the piece by John Waters on the latest release of the Denodo platform.

Excerpts from the article:

“Mashup” has emerged as the buzzword of the Web 2.0 world. However, as an enterprise trend, these lightweight, strategic Web apps that combine content from more than one source have yet to gain any real traction, said Anthony Bradley, research director on the applications architecture team at Gartner.

“There’s really no such thing as a ‘data mashup,’” Bradley said. “‘Mashup’ is the term du jour. This is about companies jumping on a term bandwagon. What Denodo is offering is data integration.”

Gartner uses three criteria to define an enterprise mashup, Bradley explained:

All of the data is externally sourced (you pull info into your application from Google Maps, for example); The technologies are Web-based (HTTP, JASON, RSS, XML, ADAM, etc.), resulting in a browser-based application; and The mashup application is a composite application, such that the source applications are readily apparent (you can look at the mashup and see that you’re using info from Google Maps).
“That gets away from data integration, where you’re normalizing or distilling everything,” Bradley said.

Companies like Nexaweb, JackBe, and Serena are defined by the analysts at Gartner as providers of enterprise mashup platforms because they provide technologies for actually building mashups. But Denodo falls into a Gartner category called “mashup enabler,” which defines products that provide data that is “mashable.” Kapow Technologies and Dapper also fall into this category, Bradley said.

ADT
Denodo Enhances Data Mashup Platform
2/12/2008
By: John K. Waters
URL: http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=22038