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When Does Ajax Make Business Sense

Hard-nosed executives recognize that there are costs associated with any benefit. In order to convince the upper-level decision makers to approve strategic investments, they need to hear more than phrases like "Essential to the business," "The results are too unpredictable," and "Yields intangible benefits." In the world of Web development,...

Tags: OpenAjax, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0

White papers 2007-02-07

Next-Generation Applications Using Ajax and OpenAjax

The OpenAjax Alliance plays a key role in defining key Ajax interoperability standards and educating the community on how to be successful with Ajax applications development. The OpenAjax Alliance's various activities are key enablers to fulfilling the Ajax promise of lower-cost development of rich user experiences. This paper examines the...

Tags: OpenAjax, OpenAjax Alliance, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0

White papers 2007-02-07

Successful Deployment of Ajax and OpenAjax

Ajax provides several architectural approaches, and each approach is supported by various commercial software products and/or open source projects. The architectural diversity provides IT managers and Web developers with the ability to choose the optimal architectural approach and best products in order to meet their particular requirements and fit in...

Tags: Commercial Software, OpenAjax, OpenAjax Alliance, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0

White papers 2007-02-07

Introducing Ajax and OpenAjax

Ajax is a design approach and a set of techniques for delivering a highly interactive, desktop-like user experience for Web applications in popular HTML browsers. Ajax, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, improves the user's Web application experience while retaining the HTML benefits of server-based application deployment. Ajax achieves...

Tags: OpenAjax, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0

White papers 2007-02-07

OpenAjax Alliance matures; puts focus on enterprise Ajax

David Boloker, CTO for Emerging Internet Technology at IBM and one of the spearheads behind the OpenAjax Alliance, gave a presentation today at Real-World Ajax here in New York City summarizing the organization's accomplishments over the last few months. Ostensibly formed to ensure the Ajax market doesn't fragment...

Tags: AJAX, OpenAjax

Blog posts 2006-06-05

Additional Resources

Standards support for mashups emerge

The announcement earlier this week that IBM has put together an open approach for making user data secure inside of Web mashups, known as SMash, was the most recent step in an unfolding story about the way the industry is trying to bring structure and order to the rapidly growing...

Tags: Standards, Mashup, DataPortability.org, OpenSAM, OpenSAM Vision, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-03-20

TIBCO boosts SOA-RIA market with donation of Ajax messaging bus to OpenAjax Alliance

TIBCO Software is easing the way for Ajax component interoperability with the donation this week of its core Ajax message bus technology to the OpenAjax Alliance OAA Hub project. TIBCO announced the donation today, at the same time as it released its PageBus, a related open source product. What's in...

Tags: Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Internet, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Mashups: The next major new software development model?

At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...

Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Eclipse joins Java Community Process (JCP)

Its been almost a year since I called for Eclipse to join Suns Java Community Process JCP organization, and almost three years since Sun suggested closer ties in an open letter to Eclipse. But today it finally happened: Eclipse joined JCP. Eclipse Director Mike Milinkovich writes:There are some who are...

Tags: General, Eclipse, Java, NetBeans, Community, Sun, JCP

Blog posts 2007-01-11

IBM CTO for Emerging Technologies talks about Ajax, Web 2.0 and trust

David Boloker CTO of Emerging Technologies at IBM came to Silicon Valley town to speak at Ajax World. I caught up with him Wednesday morning and we talked about Ajax and Web 2.0, and a new early alpha initiative IBM calls QEDwiki that can provide the framework for integrating information...

Tags: AJAX

Blog posts 2006-10-04

Mashup vs. SOA app: what's the difference?

Don Hinchcliffe, who has broken a lot of new ground over the past year in his assessments of SOA-Web 2.0 convergence, picked up on my post about IBM's mashup server, and delves deeper into what, exactly 'enterprise mashups' are, and how they can make a difference.Dion cautions that "mashup"...

Tags: mashup, SOA

Blog posts 2006-06-21

Is IBM making enterprise mashups respectable?

ZDNet blog colleague Joe McKendrick beat me to the punch earlier this week with an excellent analysis of the fascinating ramifications of IBM's recent statements at the New York PHP Conference aimed at mainstreaming mashups and Web 2.0 technologies. If IBM is getting seriously involved in this,...

Tags: mashup

Blog posts 2006-06-18

OpenAjax Alliance matures; puts focus on enterprise Ajax

OpenAjax Alliance matures; puts focus on enterprise AjaxheyI loved David Boloker's Speech! I thought it was Fabulous!! He is hansome! So cute! He is a hunk!KissesSome areas where standardization would help.1. Standard schemas for messages between server and client (generic and standard way of communicating Object, List of Objects, Object...

Tags: Strategic planning, OpenAjax Alliance, AJAX

Discussion threads 2006-06-05

Google Developer Day sneak peek with Bret Taylor

Last month Google announced what will likely become an annual event -- a Google Developer Day that will take place in 10 cities around the world on May 31st. Despite the short notice, thousands of developers have already signed up for the free event, according to Bret Taylor, Group Product...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2006-05-24

Leveraging Web 2.0 for business growth

I was in San Francisco last week at JavaOne at the same time that Gartner's IT/Symposium was taking place, though I was unable to attend Gartner's event. I was however on a JavaOne panel that discussed Ajax, SOA, and Web 2.0, the convergence of the latter two in...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-05-21