RE: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-27 Thread Andrew Lindesay
Hello Bruce; I looked at DWR and was impressed, but I hate sending XML back and forth, so when I had the need for an RPC-like mechanism in a production application, I used JSON-RPC. It took about 15 minutes to figure out and set-up and worked very well. It let me throw out all the Java co

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-26 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 07-05-26 à 18:49, Bruce Fancher a écrit : I've picked pieces out of Dojo and used them sucessfully. Some parts of it seem good, while others seem to just be thrown in there, and the documentation is still extremely poor. OTOH, the fact that IBM is backing it is appealing as it seems to

RE: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-26 Thread Bruce Fancher
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Q Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:22 PM To: Miguel Arroz Cc: webobjects-dev Apple Subject: Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation On 24/05/2007, at 12:48 AM, Miguel Arroz wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using an old version of the Wonder AJAX Framew

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Q
On 24/05/2007, at 12:48 AM, Miguel Arroz wrote: Hi! I'm using an old version of the Wonder AJAX Framework (before it became Wonder!). I'm still using that because I did some modifications (flexibility and security) that I don't want to loose. One day I have to talk to someone to integr

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Mike Schrag
The people I listen to, ChuckH, MikeS, and others from this list, are excited about the with Wonder. FWIW, I'm totally biased on this topic :) ms ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (W

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Baiss Eric Magnusson
For structured coding and debugging, GWT takes a completely different approach, you write and debug your code in Java and it gets cross- compiled into javascript. It's certainly worth looking at, but it's more intended for apps like gmail where the entire application runs in the browser and the ap

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Miguel Arroz
Hi! I'm using an old version of the Wonder AJAX Framework (before it became Wonder!). I'm still using that because I did some modifications (flexibility and security) that I don't want to loose. One day I have to talk to someone to integrate this in Wonder! :) In the JS side, I'm usin

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Jean-François Veillette
another javascript library: http://jquery.com I only looked at it briefly, done some demo, looked at the plugin architecture, impressive and interesting. - jfv Le 07-05-23 à 09:37, Mike Schrag a écrit : A short version of the question: which toolkit? why? Prototype/Scriptaculous are sort of

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Q
On 23/05/2007, at 10:37 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: Sorry for an OT question. Briefly got out of the black hole of backend development, and into the much-hyped world of dynamic web UI. Need to make a decision on a JavaScript toolkit to do various dynamic widgets for a set of web applicat

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Andrus Adamchik
Thanks Mike, I need to looks at Wonder Ajax.framework sources to maybe borrow some ideas. Andrus On May 23, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Mike Schrag wrote: A short version of the question: which toolkit? why? Prototype/Scriptaculous are sort of the 800 lb gorilla ... Rails picked it, and it has beco

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Andrus Adamchik
At the moment I am targeting tapestry 4.0, but I am trying to get a general picture, as a frontend framework change down the road is a real possibility. So I am looking more into a use pattern with a certain WO-like category of Java frameworks. Thanks Andrus On May 23, 2007, at 4:37 PM, D

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Kieran Kelleher
Have you looked at the Ajax framework in Project Wonder and how it's reusable widgets are constructed? On May 23, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: Sorry for an OT question. Briefly got out of the black hole of backend development, and into the much-hyped world of dynamic web UI. Ne

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Mike Schrag
A short version of the question: which toolkit? why? Prototype/Scriptaculous are sort of the 800 lb gorilla ... Rails picked it, and it has become sort of the de facto. They're very good as a base, but scriptaculous doesn't really define any higher level widgets. Ajax.framework is built on

Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread David LeBer
On 23-May-07, at 8:37 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: Sorry for an OT question. Briefly got out of the black hole of backend development, and into the much-hyped world of dynamic web UI. Need to make a decision on a JavaScript toolkit to do various dynamic widgets for a set of web applications

[OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation

2007-05-23 Thread Andrus Adamchik
Sorry for an OT question. Briefly got out of the black hole of backend development, and into the much-hyped world of dynamic web UI. Need to make a decision on a JavaScript toolkit to do various dynamic widgets for a set of web applications. A short version of the question: which toolkit?