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.
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, ... 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 ... 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 ... Read Article.
DWR, Direct Web Remoting for Java, has a new 1.1 release candidate available for download. DWR has quickly become the leading open-source Java library for proxy-based remoting of your server side objects. Its also bundled with the popular WebWork framework.
New features include:
New Converters for Enums and Objects
The ability to keep Bean ... Read Article.
Java2Script Pacemaker is an Eclipse JDT plugin that converts Java code into JavaScript.
It supports general Java libraries (java.*) and SWT for UI.
Examples of using Prototype for Ajax support are given in the SWT Snippets
Tutorials
Tutorial of J2S in Eclipse (1): Hello J2S World
Tutorial of J2S in Eclipse (2): Hello Simple User #8212; ... Read Article.
The Oracle Technology Center has a lengthy new article today that walks you through the procedure of creating a #8220;Smart Web UI#8221; with the combination of Ajax, JSF, and ADF Faces technologies.
They start off with the typical #8220;what is Ajax#8221; information, catching up those server-side developers that haven#8217;t worked much ... Read Article.
MyEclipse is a comprehensive Java web development suite built on top of the Eclipse platform. They just released version 4.1 with a whole host of features for Ajax development. The new Web 2.0 Tools Platform (W2TP) includes a Mozilla based web browser with an integrated JavaScript debugger and DOM inspector. Sure, we ... Read Article.
Sun invited some its own team, and some outside of town to put together a fun little video on Ajax.
The 15 minute video contains:
Chpt 1. Greg Murray - Servlet Specification/AJAX Lead
Chpt 2. Alex Russell - Dojo Toolkit Project Lead
Chpt 3. Dion Almaer - Ajaxian.com Founder
Chpt 4. Tor Norbye - Senior Staff Engineer, Java ... Read Article.
Sun has released Java Studio Creator 2, which is a full IDE for developing web applications.
We care about the Ajax support, which is best talked about in the Ajax Technology and Sun Java Studio Creator 2 reference guide.
Basically, there is a component library (ajax-components-0.96.complib) that contains items that you can put in the ... Read Article.
David Geary has announced a new remoting package for Shale, the Java framework that sits on top of JavaServer Faces.
Now with one JS function you can access your managed beans on the server side:
function zipChanged#40;zip#41; #123;
#160; #160;sendRequest#40;"http://localhost:8080/struts-shale-usecases/" +
#160; #160; #160; #160; ... Read Article.
WebWork 2.2 is an opensource Java web application framework that was just released.
WebWork 2.2 provides several unique AJAX features by building on top of DWR and Dojo. These features are: on-the-fly client side validation, a tabbed panel widget, remote div support, and remote form support.
Client side validation:
On every "onblur" event for ... Read Article.
J3Unit is a new OO testing framework for Javascript with optional integration with Jetty and Junit for automation into your test suite. It builds upon the work done with the Script.aculo.us test unit runner and JSUnit.
Of course, you can grab the zip file and just get up and running in static mode. ... Read Article.
Dejan Bosanac recently posted about integrating Spring and with the Java ajax library DWR. His entry builds upon previous work done by Bram Smeets, and Bram actually comments on some possible improvements to Dejan's setup.
Bram is also working on doing full Spring integration for DWR 2.0, which will allow two nice ... Read Article.
Dirk Rost has started a series of columns on how to build Ajax applications using the Apache Velocity templating language.
The first piece is the ubiquitous Live Search.
Dirk focuses on the server-side piece that make the following Ajax call work:
#60;input autocomplete="off" id="idMatch"
name="match" size="30" ... Read Article.
A new Ajax/XUL framework named ZK has been released.
ZK is designed to enable Web applications to have both the rich user experiences and the simple programming model. ZK includes an AJAX-based event-driven engine to automate interactivity, and a rich set of XUL-based components.
With ZK, you represent your application in feature-rich XUL ... Read Article.
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 ... 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 ... Read Article.
