AJAX, the Enterprise, and SOA—A Look Into the Future
Get an overview of the next frontier of AJAX development: the enterprise, where AJAX components can be the Web 2.0 front end of a SOA.
by Glen Kunene, Senior Editor
December 5, 2006
onsumer Web sites such as Google Maps and Yahoo Mail generally come to mind first when one thinks of AJAX-enabled applications. On those sites, millions of users experience the results of dynamic AJAX interaction between the browser and server. Less known, however, are the benefits AJAX can deliver to application development inside the enterprise. So vendors in the burgeoning enterprise AJAX space, many of whom are watching the recent AJAX and rich Internet application (RIA) buzz define a technology category they have been working in for years, must educate the market. How do enterprise developers who are loath to delve into JavaScript code incorporate the technology quickly? Which applications make sense for AJAX solutions? How can internal, non-consumer AJAX Web applications benefit business?
DevX spoke with six of these vendors to get an overview of this next frontier of AJAX development:
Backbase – makers of Backbase enterprise AJAX software
ICESoft Technologies – makers of ICEFaces, a Java EE framework for AJAX applications based on JavaServer Faces
JackBe – makers of the enterprise AJAX development and runtime environment, NQ Suite, and the Presto rich enterprise application platform
Nexaweb – makers of the Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite of products for Java-based AJAX development
TIBCO General Interface – makers of General Interface (GI) toolkit for building desktop application-like Web applications
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onsumer Web sites such as Google Maps and Yahoo Mail generally come to mind first when one thinks of AJAX-enabled applications. On those sites, millions of users experience the results of dynamic AJAX interaction between the browser and server. Less known, however, are the benefits AJAX can deliver to application development inside the enterprise. So vendors in the burgeoning enterprise AJAX space, many of whom are watching the recent AJAX and rich Internet application (RIA) buzz define a technology category they have been working in for years, must educate the market. How do enterprise developers who are loath to delve into JavaScript code incorporate the technology quickly? Which applications make sense for AJAX solutions? How can internal, non-consumer AJAX Web applications benefit business?
Glen Kunene is a Senior Editor for DevX.
