If you’ve used Google Maps, Gmail or Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access, you’re familiar with the power of AJAX, which gives Web applications the responsiveness users associate with desktop applications.

Ajax is great for websites, but very bad for web applications. People talk about the ubiquity of the web being such a great thing, but by building your applications for a browser market that is ...

Phobos is a lightweight, scripting-friendly, web application environment that runs on the Java platform. Using Phobos, you can take advantage of the benefits offered by scripting languages and ...

If you've done any Web development at all recently, you've no doubt heard the buzz going on about Web Services and Ajax. The industry hype is so prevalent that you'd almost think people were talking ...

As IT increases its dependence on Web-based systems to deliver business applications, it sacrifices end-user productivity and real-time updating of information. Web browsers have always been good at ...

Google announced yesterday the official release of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a Java-based platform for the development of AJAX web applications that work in all mainstream web browsers. Designed ...

People who read this blog know that I'm not big on building full web applications in Ajax. While the new Yahoo Mail looks really awesome, I think development time would have been much faster using ...

In three years, Tobias Lutke has grown his Ottawa, Canada startup company, Shopify, into an online marketplace of more than 2,000 stores. MSN Shopping, which has more than 8,000 stores, probably isn’t ...

In my previous article, “Put on a Happy MyFace” (July 2006), I showed how to use the JavaServer Faces (JSF) MyFaces component-based framework to create an employee header/detail use-case. Other ...

If you’ve used Google Maps, Gmail or Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access, you’re familiar with the power of AJAX, which gives Web applications the responsiveness that users associate with desktop ...