Monday, March 19, 2007

AjaxWorld Conference and Expo

Ajax is one of the components of 2.0 world. Although there are other ways to build RIA (Rich Internet Applications) applications the main open standard that many open standard contributes work on it is Ajax.

The two other competitors for building RIA are Adobe and Microsoft with their Flex and WPF/E. Although these two competitors being proprietary have some draw backs in nature, they are better than Ajax from couple of other aspects which is always the case in open environment. Ajax being open and getting contribution from all over the word still does not have a specified framework to be followed by developer. To be honest, Ajax is still not mature enough and need lots of improvements both for building standards and frameworks and to make it more efficient and productive for development. Currently, deadline with browser's incompatibilities, different third party libraries, trial and error debugging and makes Ajax developers life hard.

Today, by chance I was listening to Jouk Pleiter presentation at AjaxWorld Conference he was referring to mentioned problems and as the solution he was explaining a framework to reduce these complexities, make the Ajax code more structured and reusable, increase the performance and productivity. In his suggested framework the browser compatibility issues are taken care of by the framework, the eclipse based IDE increases the reusability of the developed code and productivity of the developers and some capabilities are provided for developers so the can do better debugging tasks.

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