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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The New Release: dojo.E 0.2.4

Last week the dojo.E team updated the code base of the dojo.E project. Many things in the code changed from the first release. The focus of the 0.2.x release was to create a well defined architecture around the core concept of adding XML to dojo. In this light, we created a flexible and well thought out XML processing engine that can take XML embedded in a script tag or external to the page and process the markup based on configured tag and namespace handlers.

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Charting is one of the more advanced components that an application developer has at their disposal. It may not be used in every application but it probably could be and should be. Why? Charting makes the consumption of larges amounts of data easier and quicker than their tabular counterparts. In the Web world there are a couple of ways to bring charting to your Ajax application.

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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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Over in the articles sections of the Nexaweb devcenter section I just finished creating a new entry describing how to Create a plugin for our Ajax client. One of the things that people can take advantage of in Nexaweb’s client architecture is the ability to integrate any third party component of any type (Flash, Ajax, HTML, Java, SilverLight) into their application. Flexibility is a fundamental design philosophy of Nexaweb or what we call a “Pillar of Development”.

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I have spent the last few weeks building examples using XML on top of dojo, including an XML version of the mail application (you can see it here http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/ticket/5766).

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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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