Open Ajax

> Hi all,
>
> It's a french article about an Ajax open source project
>
> http://www.01net.com/article/304531.html
>
> Is this project interesting for OPS ?
>
> Any comment Erik ?
>
> Marc

> I tried to remember my hihg school french lessons, but it proved futile.
> This is what Google returned.  It's a little rough, reminds me of lost
> in translation again.  It seems like IBM and other big companies are
> trying to standardize AJAX.   It seem like they will try and add some
> tools to the Eclipse IDE to work with and and debug AJAX.  Will this be
> useful to Orbeon users?
>
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> The editors gather to create a Ajax standard
> The large software publishers linked themselves at IBM around a joint
> project. They will create Open Ajax, development tool free and free.
>
> Frederic Bordering , 01 Informatique , 14/02/2006 with 15h20
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> Resting on standard technologies, Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XML)
> transposes ergonomics of the traditional heavy customers within the
> navigators. The promise is such as, according to Sebastien Brunot,
> architect at Octo Technology, "the majority of the Web developments
> which will begin this year will rest on this technique" .
>
> But Ajax is far from being perfect. The debugging of associated the
> ECMAScript code is a nightmare, and the portability of the developments
> from one navigator to another remains very unequal. To correct these
> weaknesses, IBM proposes to federate energies around a workshop of
> development free, common to all the editors and baptized Open Ajax. Such
> Eclipse in its time, this one achieved the unanimity. BEA, Borland,
> Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, and Zend support already this initiative at the
> sides of specialists such Dojo, Zimbra and Openrico, of which the
> frameworks will be the first integrated into the project. Even Google
> and Yahoo are associated there. Seul Microsoft declined the invitation.
>
> To guarantee the opening and the perenniality of Open Ajax, the project
> will be lodged by the Eclipse foundation. "a very significant choice. It
> means that the tools Ajax d' Eclipse will be available in the commercial
> environments of development of IBM, BEA and Borland. The developers will
> not have thus to change tool ", underlines Sebastien Brunot.
>
> A modular workshop of development
>
> Eclipse will provide two types of tools: a workshop of development ready
> with employment, and a technical base allowing the editors to integrate
> their frameworks Ajax within this workshop. This one will comprise
> several bricks: a ECMAScript editor with syntactic checking in real time
> and debugger provided by IBM; a ECMAScript console, an engine of
> returned Web (Geko), and an inspector DOM delivered by Mozilla. These
> bricks will be integrated in a single interface via the Web Tools
> Project d' Eclipse.
>
> Sights will facilitate also the use of a specific framework. For the
> moment, Dojo, Openrico and AjaxTK de Zimbra, published recently under
> Apache licence, are supported. The initial members of Open Ajax envisage
> to deliver tools for deployment for the Ajax applications resting on JÈE
> and PHP. The editors wanting to join the project will have API to
> integrate other navigators - one especially thinks of Internet Of
> exploring. They will also benefit from a technical base in order to
> extend the workshop with their clean framework via one plug-in.
>
> In spite of its opening, Open Ajax will undoubtedly contribute to
> rationalize the market (70 frameworks to date). The engagement of large
> of data processing should thus reassure the companies on the
> perenniality and the relevance of these developments, and guide them
> towards one from these three frameworks.
>
> What they think
> Sebastien Brunot, person in charge for the rich customer offer at Octo
> Technology
> "a great step towards the industrialization of the projects Web 2.0" "an
> integrated workshop common to all the editors was very awaited by the
> community. It is a great step ahead towards the simplification and the
> industrialization of the projects. Thanks to this kind of initiative,
> the developers will be able, in the long term, to use Ajax in an almost
> transparent way. But it is only one beginning. For meeting their needs
> well, the IDE will have to be interfaced nativement with the principal
> navigators of the market - I think of Internet Of exploring. They will
> have to allow the development controlled by the tests, in particular by
> integrating nativement the JSUnit. tool "
>
> Stefano Pogliani, responsible Customer TEAM Innovation for the
> South-western area within the software branch of IBM Europe
> "We would be delighted by see Microsoft joining us" "to guarantee the
> perenniality of the software based on Ajax, it is necessary to ensure
> the interworking and the portability of the various bases of Ajax
> execution between them. For that, we wish to federate the principal
> actors of this market around a framework of development open and
> developped at the joint point. Open Ajax is agnostic in terms of
> navigator, of language of development and waiter of applications. This
> initiative is not to in no case held in world JÈE. From where the
> presence of Zend (PHP). And we would be delighted by see Microsoft
> joining us "
>
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> Hi all,
>
> It's a french article about an Ajax open source project
>
> http://www.01net.com/article/304531.html
>
> Is this project interesting for OPS ?
>
> Any comment Erik ?
>
> Marc
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