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SoundManager 2 Updates: Speed and Demos
Scott Schiller has updated one of our favourite libraries, SoundManager. Being able to simply play some audio from your Ajax applications can be great, as long as you don't use it gratuitously.......
View Articlecrossdomain.xml, Java, and JNLP
Joshua Marinacci has detailed how Java SE 6 update 10 supports the same crossdomain.xml that Flash supports, and how you can marry it with JNLP to allow you to do Applet mashups without permission...
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Pivot: Swing++ as New Java-based RIA Platform?
And now for something a little bit different on a Friday. Greg Brown from VMWare pointed us to the fruition of nearly a year's worth of R&D: Pivot, a new GUI toolkit for Java. While traditionally...
View ArticleLoom: Annotation based Java framework
Ignacio Coloma has announced Loom 1.0 RC 1. Loom is an annotation-based java web framework that includes a ton of new features in this release. After some selective process, these are the bits that...
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Putting together GWT and Spring
Dave Kuhn has put together a comprehensive guide to piecing together GWT and Spring, a nice recipe for the Java heads among you. Dave starts out by detailing why you would want to do this, and how it...
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GWT 1.5 final release is shipped and out the door
I have seen the GWT team working very hard indeed on GWT 1.5, and they must be very happy to see the final release shipped and complete: GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of...
View ArticleJava Plugin 6 Update 10 Production Release
It really is plugin week isn't it. We had Flash and Silverlight, so it was time for Java to pop its head up from the shadows, and that is what happened with the production release of Java 6 Update 10....
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AbstractCanvas: HTML Canvas and Java2D in one fell swoop
Rodrigo Reyes has announced a new project called AbstractCanvas, a GWT project that sits on top of HTML Canvas and Java2D. The same code can thus run in the browser, or on the server. You can then...
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Interfaces in JavaScript
The UML diagram above is from Matt Prokes as he creates Java-like interfaces for JavaScript. He has a full example: An example of an object which requires an implementation of the interface. PLAIN...
View ArticleOilCan: Grease up your Android browser
Jeffrey Sharkey has created OilCan a thin wrapper on top of the WebKit shipping on Android that allows you to install userscripts that allow you to access to Android "Intents". Intents are very nice...
View ArticleDWR 3.0 near final release with RC
Joe Walker and team have announced the first RC for DWR 3.0. We asked Joe to tell us what is new: DWR now supports: varargs method overloading typed parameters binary file upload/download it has a set...
View ArticleSpecial Offer for Ajaxian Readers: TheServerSide Java Symposium
Hello Ajaxians! We're inviting all of the Java developers out there to an event organized by our sister site, TheServerSide.com, the Web's largest enterprise Java community. As a member of Ajaxian, you...
View ArticleCP2JavaWS: GWT like Cappuccino to Java remote services bridge
Jerome Denanot has created CP2JavaWS, an open source "bridge between Cappuccino rich desktop applications and Java services deployed on a web server. It consists of a proxy (client side) and a servlet...
View ArticleAjaxian Offer: $200 off expires this Friday
This Friday is the LAST CHANCE for Ajaxian readers to save $200 off TheServerSide Java Symposium, an event hosted by our sister site TheServerSide.com. Every little bit helps in this economy - register...
View ArticleGhosts in the machine – avoid using window.sun in Firefox as it starts the...
Sometimes you find leftovers of old technology in browsers that blow your mind. One of these "ghost in the machine" problems exists in Firefox: if you use window.sun or function sun() in JavaScript you...
View ArticleThe Most Popular Sessions at TheServerSide Java Symposium
TheServerSide.com's Java Symposium kicks off in less than 2 weeks! Our sister site has put together an impressive lineup of speakers and over 45 tech sessions and case studies that you should know...
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IT Mill Toolkit 5 out of Beta
With the release of IT Mill Toolkit 5.3.0, the server-side RIA framework is now ready for production. I announced the initial release of 5.0 back in December of 2007. Since that time, IT Mill 5 has...
View ArticleAtmosphere: Comet Abstraction Framework
Jean-Francois Arcand announced a new Java-based framework that clients can code against for portable Comet support: Atmosphere 0.1-ALPHA1 is now officially released and support Tomcat, Jetty, Grizzly...
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Transparent Comet with IceFaces
We recently posted on Atmosphere, a new framework designed to provide an abstraction layer over Comet back-ends for Java web applications. At a personal level, this comes at an interesting time as...
View ArticleJavaScript on the command line or as a shell scripting language
I am always fascinated that no matter how shiny the OS, sooner or later you'll end up typing things into a text console to get the darn machine to do what you want it to. To make matters worse you also...
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