Ajax & Scripting

Up the Nile *With* a Paddle: Fun With JavaFX Graphics

I've often mentioned the importance of programmers and graphics designers working together to create great looking RIAs.  The declarative syntax of JavaFX...

5 replies - 2726 views - 11/26/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles

Sanity Will Be Restored to Internet Application Development on December 4, 2008

Yes, that's a bold statement, but I've waited 13 years to be able to say it.  If you've followed my blog or have heard me speak about JavaFX, you know that I...

16 replies - 2730 views - 11/25/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles

The Soul Of The Web - Why Ajax Standards Matter

I spoke on a panel at Mashup Camp this week on why Ajax Standards matter. I was quoted by Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise as saying that we are...

4 replies - 3357 views - 11/24/08 by Chris Keene in News

Asynchronous Ajax for Revolutionary Web Applications

What if a small change in the way that we use the Web could allow us to turn every application into a new communication tool? What if users could communicate...

10 replies - 7267 views - 11/11/08 by Ted Goddard in Articles

WebSocket is neither Web nor Socket

The HTML 5 proposal contains many new and interesting ideas. To provide some background, let's take a closer look at WebSocket and consider it against...

1 replies - 3438 views - 11/04/08 by Ted Goddard in Articles

Ajaxified Body

I've often wondered if it was possible to use Ajax to reload the main content of a web application without reloading the header, menu and footer. SiteMesh...

2 replies - 5811 views - 10/06/08 by Matt Raible in News

The Great GWT Roundup

Over the past two months or so we here at the web builder zone, thanks to Manning Publishing, have been publishing a comprehensive series on GWT. We recently...

0 replies - 11404 views - 09/26/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Java as a Scripting Language?

I came across a language comparison (which I wish I could still find) where the author presented a code sample in many different languages. The example he...

18 replies - 3396 views - 09/03/08 by Derek Young in News

Making GWT Remote Procedure Calls

GWT enables client applications to communicate with server resources through its own RPC and object-serialization mechanism. This communication process...

0 replies - 11498 views - 08/25/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

TableNode: Creating a Custom Scrollable Table in JavaFX

In July 2008 I started the JFX Custom Nodes category that contains a growing series of posts in which a graphics designer (Mark Dingman of Malden Labs) and I...

0 replies - 3076 views - 08/18/08 by Jim Weaver in Articles

AMF - Problems When Serializing Between Java and ActionScript

Below are some tips and tricks when dealing with serialization between Java and ActionScript. I’ve spent some time and encountered some frustrations...

3 replies - 3538 views - 07/30/08 by ccreanga in Articles

Using JBoss RichFaces with JBoss Developer Studio

JBoss RichFaces is a rich component library for JSF. RichFaces components come with AJAX support out-of-the-box and thus enable organizations to build Rich...

2 replies - 15204 views - 07/10/08 by Nitin Bharti in Videos