ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript
Published March 10th, 2010 Under Javascript | Leave a Comment
Brendan Eich, the creator of the world’s most popular programming language, talks about the struggle over the ES4 proposal and how it resulted in a specific set of proposals for ES5.
Embracing Collaboration with JRuby and JavaScript
Published March 10th, 2010 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
As web developers, we live in an arranged marriage with JavaScript. What is a Rubyist to do? Use JavaScript as a compile target? Abstract it away on the server? With JRuby, we can embrace the shared language of the web in a compelling way, building reusable libraries that work across the client-server boundary. By bridging Ruby to JavaScript using Rhino, we gain shared databases, including their indexing strategies. We gain remote model discovery and shared client/server validation. We gain a shared query language. And because it is JavaScript, we gain the entire web community as collaborators.
RIA Problems You Never Expected: RPC Spaghetti
Published March 3rd, 2010 Under Flex | Leave a Comment
Leveraging web services seems easy, but what happens as your data model increases in complexity? Kevin Hoyt examines this problem and proposes a solution for data management.
Flex 4 and Java Basics Video
Published March 3rd, 2010 Under Flex, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
This screencast walks through the basics of integrating Flex 4 and Java.
http://www.jamesward.com/videos/flex_java.html
JAVAWUG BOF 51 PrimeFaces
Published March 3rd, 2010 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
PrimeFaces is an open source library for JSF featuring 50+ rich set of UI components and a lightweight ajax framework making complex RIA applications a no-brainer to implement. Additional TouchFaces subproject provides a mobile UI kit for developing IPhone applications with JSF and Java. This talk also covers everything about PrimeFaces family and it’s subprojects including UI Components, TouchFaces, Optimus and FacesTrace.
Produced by JAVAWUG Java Web User Group London
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