Enunciate for Better Ajax Based Websites

The usual trend of most ajax frameworks is to aid developers in building an Ajax based application or website without even writing a single line of code. These frameworks offer a drag and drop interface which ensures easy website development. All the developer has to do is to bind these functions to specific parameters and data to establish an Ajax based application.

Then there is Enunciate. This type of framework is unapologetic in requiring their developers to code in Java before anything Ajax based application has to be built. It could take time and it could be quite frustrating if the Java developer is not yet well versed on the programming language.

Enunciate is an open source framework that could enable the developer build an Ajax based application by effectively writing Java.

Before we continue, you might say that this is almost the same with GWT (Google Web Toolkit). GWT translates Java coding into an effective Ajax based application. However, Enunciate is entirely different because it offers an extra step in building an Ajax based application.

Before translating the Java coding into Ajax, Enunciate translates the code into API first. This extra step is what makes enunciate different from GWT and other frameworks that translate Java into an Ajax based application.

The best thing about enunciate is that it just does not translate the Java code into Ajax just like GWT but developers are able to choose a roadmap for their code. Aside from GWT as an output, the following are the additional outputs developers could choose:

• SOAP
• REST
• JSON
• AMF

There are other outputs that a developer can consider. Enunciate comes with a full documentation that should guide you in building a highly effective Ajax based website or application.

Because of various outputs, developers could consider their Java application as a source code. This has caused a stir from different developers because it is almost a bragging claim. However, Enunciate is a very smart Ajax based application which is open to versioning.

That means developers are able to build an Ajax based application and their version could be changed overtime which could still be adapted to other applications. As a source code, the Java coding could be interoperable which means it could be applied to other Ajax applications. Other codes cannot be built as a source code which means it cannot actively interact with other frameworks.

Enunciate does nOt even end their. Their versioning will not only be applied in their source code. In the future, Enunciate will release another version of their framework that will help developers create a version from the client side. Enunciate still has a long way to go but their offer to developers is very impressive.

If you are familiar with Java, you should be able to build a highly effective Ajax based application with the help of Enunciate. Their full documentation, multiple outputs and their openness to revision could help any developer build an Ajax based application without being too constricted with an output of a framework.