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Cometd: Bringing Comet to the Masses

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Framework, Comet — Chris Cornutt at 8:06 am on Friday, July 14, 2006

As was briefly mentioned in this previous post, there’s a framework in development for those users out there looking to the skies and wanting to use Coment - Cmoetd.

Cometd is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a push technology pattern known as Comet.

The frameork, previously named “ShortBus” is a collaboration between Teknikill Software and Shadowcat Systems to provide a simple, light method for users to easy integrate the Comet technology into their applications. The site’s a little light on the information (and documentation), but there are some slides/images to help clear things up a bit:

You can also check out the Cometd Development Group and Users Group over on Google.

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Integration of Spry and PHP/MySQL

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Programming, Framework, PHP — Chris Cornutt at 7:51 am on Thursday, July 13, 2006

Mike Kornienko writes in this new blog entry about his experiences (complete with code) integrating the Spry Ajax framework into a simple PHP/MySQL application he develops:

Adobe have recently released its Spry Ajax framework for public beta-test by developers and I’ve been playing with this baby for a while. And here’s some kind of report of what I have learned.

He gives several examples of the integration in his post, including the PHP to make some basic XML for Spry to use. His base-level Spry example grabs this data and just echoes it back out to the page via an HTML form. Before finishing it off with the full HTML/Javascript code, though, he shows how to sort by a specific column in the data (in this case, the ID column).

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MODx : CMS

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Showcase, Ajax, Server, Framework, Presentation, Examples — Admin at 3:12 am on Monday, July 3, 2006

MODx is a content management system with AJAX goodness (or Web 2.0 as they say). The code is neat and gives a true CMS feel. Though I liked the admin Interface more, the panel offers a wide range of options , Tools, extra plugins , stats checking etc. like a true CMS .

I should say it does a lot more than other AJAX based scripts like AJAXpress and AJAX Portal . But still it needs a lot more to get into high level category of scripts like Joomla and Wordpress.

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Interview with ZK Creator Tom Yeh

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Java, Toolkit, Ajax, Server, Framework — Rob Sanheim at 10:44 am on Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Agile Ajax has posted an interview with the creator of ZK, the server-side GUI framework for writing ajax apps with “no javascript and little programming”. ZK has some similiarities to Echo2 and GWT, though Tom Yeh, the creator, discusses the differences:
on Echo2:

Echo2 assumes UI designers are Swing programmers, while ZK assumes they are mostly non-programmers

on GWT:

From a technological viewpoint, [GWT] is a complement. GWT is a client-side solution and quite good for developing Ajax components. It is never a good idea to replicate the business logic to the client, which eventually brings us back to the maintenance headache of fat clients. In addition, loading and evaluating huge JavaScript files into the client is not fun at all.

The interview goes on to cover the strengths and weaknesses of ZK, Dojo and Atlas, and future plans for the framework. He also closes with a common complaint about the Ajax community - the over abundance of frameworks and resulting confusion. A chart breaking down the major players and their pros and cons would be a great help to many developers who are trying to figure out where to start.