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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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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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 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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