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20051116 Wednesday November 16, 2005

RE: Is Ajax gonna kill the web frameworks? James is asking "Is Ajax gonna kill the web frameworks?" From my personal experience, I can definitely say that Ajax is going to give web frameworks a run for their money. However, I doubt it's going to completely replace web frameworks. There's many companies out there that aren't willing to commit to developing a JavaScript-only UI - not even Google. GMail has a non-javascript version that's used when you disable JavaScript in your browser.

That being said, I'd much rather work on a project that embraces and uses Ajax over a web framework. However, even if you decide to use Ajax, doesn't the same framework proliferation problem still exist? DWR, Scriptaculous, Prototype, AjaxTags, AjaxAnywhere, Rico, Dojo, JSON-RPC - which Ajax frameworks are the best ones to use? If one of these projects joins Apache, will it become the de-facto Ajax framework like Struts did? ;-) Posted in Java at Nov 16 2005, 11:16:57 AM MST 8 Comments

San Francisco The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco This week, I'm conducting a Spring and Hibernate workshop in San Francisco. I arrived late Monday night and will be here until Friday evening. So far, it's been an interesting trip. I woke up yesterday with some sort of stomach bug and almost had to postpone the class. Luckily, the pains in my stomach (and profuse sweating) went away 15 minutes before the class was scheduled to start. I made it through the day, but was pretty worn out afterwards. After class, I headed back to my hotel room and laid down for a power nap around 5 p.m. When I woke up it was 2:00 a.m. I went back to sleep and today I'm feeling much better.

The weather is beautiful here - upper 60s to low 70s during the day. This is quite a contrast to Denver - when I left, it was cold and starting to snow. In fact, our plane had to go to the de-icer before we could take off. Posted in General at Nov 16 2005, 07:10:12 AM MST Add a Comment