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Sun has created a flash screencast that aims to show off Java Studio Creator. Java Studio Creator is a JavaServer Faces-based IDE that happens to contain a bunch of Ajax components that you can use. This means that you can do some drag and drop Ajax development. The screencast has the following sections Introduction Production Quality Apps Complete...   Read Article.
Most of the Ajax world is focused on the client side and ooooh ahhhh effects Greg Wilkins is sitting on the other side of the fence thinking about the implications of a popular Ajax application on the server side. Earlier Greg described how Jetty 6 uses Continuations and javax.nio to limit the number of threads required ......   Read Article.
Philip McCarthy has another article over at IBM developerWorks. This time it is on Ajax with Direct Web Remoting. 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 ......   Read Article.
If you ve attended one of our Ajax talks or listened to our Podcasts you know that we re big fans of Greasemonkey the little Firefox plug-in that lets you modify web applications. Rich Manalang recently pinged us about Monkeygrease which he describes as basically a server-side Greasemonkey for J2EE web apps It s a servlet filter sorry for...   Read Article.
Struts is the grand-daddy of Java web frameworks and although the buzz has moved on to other Java web frameworks like JavaServer Faces WebWork Tapestry ... a lot of people are still writing Struts applications. Paul Browne has written an introductory article called Sprinkle Some AJAX Magic in Your Struts Web Application. The article focuses...   Read Article.
jsquery is a bridge project written by David Bennett that allows you to write JavaScript code on your HTML front end that will marshall over to a Java server backend to get access to data. This can be done in an asynchronous manner. Overview jsquery is divided into three parts Javascript http client WebRoot js jsquery_httpclient.js...   Read Article.
Tacos just released a new version of its components which includes a major refactoring changing most of the client side interactions to rely solely on the dojo javascript library. Some new components have been added to the demo DatePicker Dialog and tons of stability and feature enhancements have been made to the library allowing greater ease ......   Read Article.
ClearNova has announced ThinkCAP JX which is a RAD platform for building Ajax and J2EE applications. Features MVC Framework Integrated Visual Workbench Page Flow Designer Smart Data Binding Data Aware Components Mock Data Prototyping Updateable DataView Content Management Checkout screen shots of the tools Resources ClearNova integrates...   Read Article.
Lots of people ask how do I make sorttable sort the table the first time the page is loaded The answer is you don t. Sorttable is about changing the HTML that is served from your server without a page refresh. When the page is first served from the server you have to incur the wait for it to be served anyway. So if you want the table sorted when...   Read Article.
AjaxAnywhere is designed to turn any set of existing JSP or JSF components into AJAX-aware components without complex JavaScript coding. In contrast to other solutions AjaxAnywhere is not component-oriented. You will not find here yet another AutoComplete component. Simply separate your web page into multiple zones and use AjaxAnywhere to...   Read Article.
The AJAX Tag Library is a set of JSP tags that simplify the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML AJAX technology in JavaServer Pages. AJAX is primarily rooted in JavaScript. However many server-side developers do not have an extensive knowledge of client-side programming in the browser. It s much easier in some cases for J2EE developers especially...   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 cross-dependency....   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 frameworks...   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 Hibernate...   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 incompatibilities between...   Read Article.