For the 2:40pm - the only game in town is Laszlo System's presentation: The Browser, The Portal, and the Desktop. If you haven't tried it yet, visit the OpenLaszlo site to see application samples created with the OpenLaszlo platform. It's FREE and open-source. The coolest feature is its ability to generate a Flash (version 6, 7, 8) edition or an Ajax edition. Under the hood - Flex and OpenLaszlo are very similar -- some even say that Flex was a copy-cat of Laszlo. Either way - we probably have OpenLaszlo to thank because it most certainly made Adobe open-source the Flex SDK and compiler sooner rather than later.
Now Laszlo System as I understand it is the commercial entity that is trying to make money by building solutions and consulting on the OpenLaszlo platform (somebody correct me if I'm wrong!). Laszlo is all over AjaxWorld, and they were demo'ing WebTop - a very attractive RIA desktop delivered via the web. WebOS anybody?
Open Laszlo is on my list of things to experiment with when I have time.
Since Adobe Flex 2 is free, why choose Open Laszlo? Here's what one of their engineers said....Open Laszlo deploys to Flash 6, 7, or 8 -- that's 98% of the browsers by Adobe's numbers. Flex 2 apparently requires Flash 9 (60%). So if you want to reach the largest audience without an install - Open Laszlo is the better choice (now). Also - if you are building widgets for mobile devices - Flash Lite provides Flash 7 support, not Flash 9. Which means - that once again - Open Laszlo would be the better choice (for now).
But if a Flash 9 installation is an acceptable installation requirement - then the difference seems to disappear since Flex 2 SDK is free, and Flash 9 is supposed to be noticeably faster.
If Open Laszlo had drag-and-drop interface like Flex Builder - then the scales would tip back to Open Laszlo...but their eclipse plug-in project has been archived.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
AjaxWorld 2007 Day Two (Afternoon)
Since I'm interested in Dojo - I decide to attend James Harmon's talk "Creating AJAX-Powered Forms with the Dojo Toolkit". This was a bad choice for me because I didn't really learn anything new. But for those that have no exposure to the Dojo Toolkit - it would've been a really good session. His 50-minute presentation enhanced a typical JSP HTML form using Dojo elements that included client-side, and server-side validation, Rich Text Editor control, and a Combo Box. Slides can be found here.
Finally - food! During the lunch break- there was a Power Panel in the main ballroom - unfortunately - I'm eating lunch and chatting with others during the lunch break and miss most of the panel.
For the 2:40pm - the only game in town is Laszlo System's presentation. I created a separate blog entry just for this one....Laszlo had a big presence at AjaxWorld.
On to the next presentation....Dylan Scheimann: Web Vector Graphics & Dojo Draw This! I want to watch this again when the AjaxWorld DVD comes out because I had to run out of the room to take a call from work. But in a nutshell - Dojo provides a vector graphics library (dojo.gfx) that's supposed to be easier to use than VML or SVG, and it hides cross-browser issues. That sounds like a good thing. So if you want to do graphics, and build charts in the browser -- definitely check this out.
At 4:30pm - I watched a presentation on ICEFaces. I never heard of them before AjaxWorld. It appears to be a fairly rich looking java-centric Ajax platform that was recently open-sourced. Their presentation certainly looked good - and this presentation focused on security aspects of the product which seems to plug potential holes in Ajax. Using Java EE enforced security roles (I think Stephen said he's using Tomcat and Tomcat roles) - you can prevent users from running particular Ajax features. My impression is that ICEFaces and BackBase play in the same space.
What does this mean? Just another Ajax libary to explore some day....but not today.
The conference continued further with 2 more sessions - but I was completely spent at this point. I didn't have the energy to continue due to jet-lag from Bangalore, and I felt that 10 hours of Ajax presentations was enough fun for one day. Too bad I won't be able to make the boat-trip sponsored by Laszlo - I'm sure they'd provide enough free drinks to convince me to rewrite everything using Open Laszlo :-)
Some other things I would miss:
Finally - food! During the lunch break- there was a Power Panel in the main ballroom - unfortunately - I'm eating lunch and chatting with others during the lunch break and miss most of the panel.
For the 2:40pm - the only game in town is Laszlo System's presentation. I created a separate blog entry just for this one....Laszlo had a big presence at AjaxWorld.
On to the next presentation....Dylan Scheimann: Web Vector Graphics & Dojo Draw This! I want to watch this again when the AjaxWorld DVD comes out because I had to run out of the room to take a call from work. But in a nutshell - Dojo provides a vector graphics library (dojo.gfx) that's supposed to be easier to use than VML or SVG, and it hides cross-browser issues. That sounds like a good thing. So if you want to do graphics, and build charts in the browser -- definitely check this out.
At 4:30pm - I watched a presentation on ICEFaces. I never heard of them before AjaxWorld. It appears to be a fairly rich looking java-centric Ajax platform that was recently open-sourced. Their presentation certainly looked good - and this presentation focused on security aspects of the product which seems to plug potential holes in Ajax. Using Java EE enforced security roles (I think Stephen said he's using Tomcat and Tomcat roles) - you can prevent users from running particular Ajax features. My impression is that ICEFaces and BackBase play in the same space.
What does this mean? Just another Ajax libary to explore some day....but not today.
The conference continued further with 2 more sessions - but I was completely spent at this point. I didn't have the energy to continue due to jet-lag from Bangalore, and I felt that 10 hours of Ajax presentations was enough fun for one day. Too bad I won't be able to make the boat-trip sponsored by Laszlo - I'm sure they'd provide enough free drinks to convince me to rewrite everything using Open Laszlo :-)Some other things I would miss:
- Dion Hinchcliffe's presentation "Mashups: The Future of Enterprise Apps in the Web 2.0 Era".
- And Tj Kang's presentation that was picked up by TechCrunch, "Elegant Complex Applications for Large Data Operations".
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