Nexablog

Google Chrome is only about three weeks old and is already an Internet phenomenon. To sum it up, Google Chrome is all about making web browsing safer, faster, and easier. While some might see a fierce competition between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, I see harmony.

Here is some background to better understand this point of view. There has been a somewhat valid belief stating that the un-typed and interpreted nature of the JavaScript language was a major limitation for building demanding client applications. Consequently, to overcome this challenge, the browser technology providers had the following two options:

1. Re-invent the language by “upgrading” the JavaScript language to a more a traditional typed and object-oriented language, such as Java or C#, allowing the runtime to just focus on running the code.
2. Re-invent the runtime by creating novels ways for the JavaScript virtual machine to parse and interpret the JavaScript code, making the language as robust and reliable as more traditional languages.

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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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On Wednesday Nexaweb and HP came together to give a presentation on how to utilize their two platforms together. Why? Whether you are a back-end service provider or a front-end service consumer; the combination of governance and tools to make it easy to build applications provide an environment for best practice application development.

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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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Legacy applications are an even bigger headache than was originally thought. The announcement of Nexaweb Advance has generated huge attention in the media and has caused a 400% jump in traffic to www.nexaweb.com over a normal 5 day period. Check out some of the coverage below:

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Just my thoughts from talking to people……

Widget Wars - Every time I talk with enterprise scale customers, they always seem to be mostly interested in the latest “sexy” or “fancy” widgets to address a specific item or customer request. They want to use open source libraries and find a clever way to make 46 different tool kits and frameworks all work together seamlessly to deliver a “unique rich user experience”.

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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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