I expect that they will post it in the near term at www.javasig.com. Ben demo'd AJAX techniques by coding from scratch with the IntelliJ IDE on a Mac notebook, in front of the ~250 attendees there, an AJAX zip code lookup thing. He talked about synchronous vs asynchronous client-host communications. He talked about Google maps. While it seems to be the best location mapping software, and although there have been a lot of oohs and ahhs from the market, he demoed some reverse-engineered 250 lines of code to do Google maps can be written by mere mortals in two hours.
While I care about Swing a lot, most of the attendees were more interested in web-browser clients. To wrap up, Ben mentioned the dilema choosing between say Swing and AJAX. Ben indicated that at Sun and other places, people are working on frameworks for "filthy-rich clients". Thus, even though the browser clients can be made to be more robust via AJAX techniques, multi-media Java tools and clients having much more oomph and are expected to appear by say September-2006. I like Swing-clients for in-house use and browser-clients for remote users. Ben highlighted some of the advanced features of Mozilla's Firefox useful to AJAX developers. Following his meeting at Redmond, Ben indicated that Microsoft does not expect to have some of this functionality available to the public for maybe one year. --Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn Wolthuis Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 12:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] - Java - AJAX On 2/24/06, Brutzman, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I liked (author) Ben Galbraith's talk in NYC last night. Consider > www.Ajaxian.com, www.galbraiths.org, www.javasig.com, and Google maps. > > --Bill Hi Bill -- I'm familiar with his blogs, but couldn't find info re his talk. Is there a URL that would direct me to info on it? Otherwise perhaps you could provide some tidbits from it (on u2-community perhaps). Thanks. --dawn -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Tincat Group, Inc. Blog: www.tincat-group.com/mewsings Take and give some delight today! ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
