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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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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One thing we preach at Nexaweb more than any other is that no one technology / language / runtime… can solve all your needs. As I like to say, “It takes a village” of software technologies to raise your application from an idea to a production application.

Last week one of our Services people came to me and asked, “How would you upload a file using the Nexaweb Java Client?” At first I thought just use the Java Client and open up a file dialog. Then I remembered that under normal circumstances Java creates a very secure environment to run your applications. This “Sandbox” makes it impossible for applications that are not signed to access local resources.

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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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