The term Ajax was presented to the publicnbsp;during 2005 when Jesse James Garrett released a report which referred to the technique that was used by Google to build Google Maps. But before the term was actually coined, there are developers around the world who are already working in this type of technique which, until today, is referred to as ... Read Article

RAD (Rapid Application Development) is probably the most popular type of SDLC model today. With this development model, developers are able to build an application really fast. Basically RAD lets the developers constantly build an application by stages while consulting to the potential users. With that technique, developers does not only cuts the ... Read Article

In previous blogs, we talked about JSP (JavaServer Pages) as tags that could be easily integrated with Ajax. As JSP has the capacity to process XML, this lightweight function could easily be associated with a Java-enabled framework. This technique will help developers easily build an Ajax based application using their knowledge in Java and not ... Read Article

JavaServer Pages or JSP is one of the small things Java has developed to aid the developers in building faster and better Java based applications. JavaServer Pages has the ability to built HTML documents every time they are requested by user or when triggered by the application. Through JSP, developers will have the ability to build a webpage ... Read Article

Java based frameworks for Ajax development are everywhere. Each of them provides a slightly different technique catering to the skills of some Java developers. But if you have tried developing an application or creating a website using Google Web Toolkit or GWT, the gist of the idea is basically there. After all, GWT is practically the leader in ... Read Article

Java developers are now more comfortable in developing Ajax based application. Even without writing a single line of JavaScript, an Ajax based application is possible with Java developer. Although it requires advanced knowledge of Java technology to enable Java in Ajax, the fact that Java is possible opens doors to the developers who has ... Read Article

Developers were the first to notice this. In fact, the developer community was jazzed about the technical approach that Google used. In February 2005, AdapativePath's Jesse James Garrett coined the phrase "AJAX" as "Asynchronous JavaScript + XML" to describe this approach1. In particular, he pointed out the usage of "XMLHttpRequest" object ...   Read Article.

If you're doing Java™ Web development using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax), then delivering data from the server to the client is probably your top concern. In this second article in the Ajax for Java developers series, Philip McCarthy walks you through five approaches to Java object serialization and gives you all the ...   Read Article.

Exciting as it is, adding Ajax functionality to your applications can mean a lot of hard work. In this third article in the Ajax for Java™ developers series, Philip McCarthy shows you how to use Direct Web Remoting (DWR) to expose JavaBeans methods directly to your JavaScript code and automate the heavy-lifting of ...   Read Article.

AJAX represents a generic application model that would enable more interactive, more responsive, and smarter Web applications. AJAX is not tied to a particular programming language, data format, or network object and is defined by two core attributes: partial screen update and asynchronous communication. There are three approaches to build and ...   Read Article.

AJAX with J2EE Anyone who has used Flickr, GMail, Google Suggest, or Google Maps will realize that a new breed of dynamic web applications is emerging. These applications look and act very similar to traditional desktop applications without relying on plug-ins or browser-specific features. Web applications have traditionally been a set of HTML ...   Read Article.

This tutorial guides you through the development of a small human-resources application, first using conventional JavaServer Pages (JSP) based technology, and then migrating it to a highly interactive solution using ...   Read Article.

If your project calls for AJAX or DOM scripting and you need it done quickly, with minimal fuss, and you believe in keeping things simple, then jQuery might be perfect for ...   Read Article.

jMaki is all about enabling Java developers to use JavaScript in their Java based applications as either a JSP tag library or a JSF component.jMaki uses the best parts of Java and the best parts of JavaScript to deliver a rich AJAX style widgets. jMaki currently provides bootstrap widgets for many components from Dojo, Scriptaculus, Yahoo UI ...   Read Article.

The recently released Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a comprehensive set of APIs and tools that lets you create dynamic Web applications almost entirely in Java(TM) code. Philip McCarthy returns to his popular Ajax for Java developers series to show you what GWT can do and help you decide whether it's right for you. (Note: You can now download ...   Read Article.

Struts-Layout is a tag library for struts which provides easy and fast interface creation. This is achieved by powerful tags which display panels, input fields, tables, treeviews, sortable lists, datagrids, popups, calendars, etc. With those tags, the developer have neither need to write nor even know ...   Read Article.

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle ...   Read Article.

DWR allows Javascript in a browser to interact with Java on a server and helps you manipulate web pages with the results. DWR integrates with a large number of other projects. A common query is how to get at servlet objects like HttpServletRequest, which is explained in accessing servlet objects. DWR comes with some integration with Spring and ...   Read Article.

Ajax4jsf is a rich component framework that has been created exclusively to bring rich user interface functionality to the JavaServer Faces world. The major reasons you can select Ajax4jsf to use: Leveraging the whole set of the JavaServer Faces benefits working with AJAX Ajax4jsf is fully integrated into the JSF lifecycle. While other ...   Read Article.

Java Web Parts is a project that provides small, reusable and largely independant Java components of interest to all web application developers. You can think of this project as being similar to the Jakarta Commons projects. Java Web Parts is comprised of a number of packages, each supplied in their own individual JAR, with little (ideally no) ...   Read Article.