On 2/27/06, Brutzman, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I was a Swing/java person and have started learning PHP, JavaScript, xhtml, & css. I put a little beginner example out there (running with OpenQM) with all of the source code at http://webdev.tincat-group.com/mewsings/personEmail.html I referred to this as End-to-end AJAX in my blog entry http://www.tincat-group.com/mewsings/2006/01/who-ordered-ripple-delete.html . I like the AJAX approach and I do see it is now viable to write rich browser-based applications, but I'll admit it is no small thing to accomplish browser-independence. Cheers! --dawn -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Tincat Group, Inc. www.tincat-group.com Take and give some delight today! ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
