In this Ajax tutorial, you'll find the definitions, expert advice, news, and examples you need to get started with and optimize your use of Ajax. You will also find information on other ways to create and use rich Internet applications.
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Ajax and RIA Trends
Ajax technologies are as dynamic as the applications they create. Changes and trends Ajax and other RIA techniques are frequent. ECMAScript 5 will soon be made the new JavaScript standard on the Web. Analysts see RIAs as essential to SOA, and programmers are able to integrate Ajax with other RIA languages, like Flex. Read about these developments and more in the links below.
What to expect with the new JavaScript standardization (ECMAScript 5)
ECMAScript 5, the first JavaScript standardization since 1999, will be released later this year. Though not as thorough an overhaul as some programmers would have liked, ECMAScript 5 provides important updates that fix common pitfalls from ECMAScript 3 and allow developers to create more secure, robust programs.
ECMAScript 5 takes JavaScript to new level
JavaScript, the 'J' in Ajax, was once on the fringes of development. As it has grown to power thousands of new Web applications, it has moved to center stage. Still, changes to a standard version that came to be known as ECMAScript have been slow in coming.
Ajax and Flex try to co-exist inside RIA development
Flex and Ajax can not only co-exist in rich Internet applications (RIAs), they complement each other when used in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
SOA needs RIA – Burton Group
Users need to find SOA applications fun to use, argues Richard Monson-Haefel, senior analyst, Burton Group Inc., because if they don't, the business risks losing productivity, the very reason why it embraced SOA.
Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) melds with ColdFusion, builds calendaring system for child services agency
Considered by many to be a dead language just a few years ago, ColdFusion is getting a second life in rich Internet applications (RIA) developed at the San Diego Department of Child Support Services.
Enterprise RIA needs to build on, not replace, SOA
The software industry needs to stop marketing one three-letter acronym such as RIA as a replacement for the previous three-letter acronym SOA, says Jeremy Chone, the new CTO of Nexaweb Technologies Inc. Read this Q&A to hear how RIAs, including those built with Ajax, are complemented by SOA.
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