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by Scott Delap.
Original Post: Backbase and Ajax over at TSS
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There is a thread going on over at TSS related to Backbase's release of a white paper about their AJAX tools. I will admit that the demos Backbase has up look impressive. One of the more interesting comments on the TSS thread is:
...AJAX is a pretty nice method for RIA implementation. But AJAX isn't a standard, and there isn't a standard RIA architecture that I'm aware of that employs AJAX. With commercial AJAX toolkits, tags and libraries coming out, will lack of standarization hurt sales? I was burned by the early Portal craze. I definitely see promise in AJAX, but will save my investment until all these commercial providers are able to standardize and play nice together.
I think this is a very valid point. Bloggers have gone crazy over Ajax the last few months. Ajax doesn't define a specific toolkit like Flex, Swing, or SWT though. We've already seen countless projects try to rebrand themselves as using Ajax. If you were to attempt hiring an "Ajax" developer today, what would you get?
Backbase publishes "AJAX and Beyond" whitepaper Backbase, a company specializing in rich internet applications, has published a whitepaper entitled "AJAX and Beyond" to explain their Backbase Presentation Client, designed to interact with their Presentation Server. They also have a Backbase Development Environment for Java and .NET. All of the products are expected to be available around the end of May 2005, with a current download being available in their developer section...
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