If you’ve used Google Maps, Gmail or Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access, you’re familiar with the power of AJAX, which gives Web applications the responsiveness users associate with desktop applications.

Ajax is great for websites, but very bad for web applications. People talk about the ubiquity of the web being such a great thing, but by building your applications for a browser market that is ...

Google announced yesterday the official release of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a Java-based platform for the development of AJAX web applications that work in all mainstream web browsers. Designed ...

Web applications are getting richer and more widespread, but it's unclear which of several competing technologies will power them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

People who read this blog know that I'm not big on building full web applications in Ajax. While the new Yahoo Mail looks really awesome, I think development time would have been much faster using ...

Companies deploy Web-based enterprise applications because they’re easy to support and deliver to a broad range of devices. In the 1990s, browsers became the platform for critical applications such as ...

In my previous article, “Put on a Happy MyFace” (July 2006), I showed how to use the JavaServer Faces (JSF) MyFaces component-based framework to create an employee header/detail use-case. Other ...

The new buzz in Web development is AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) -- an abstract collection of Web technologies that enables developers to create richer, more user-friendly sites. AJAX is cool ...

SPI Dynamics launched the newest iteration of its DevInspect Web applications vulnerability testing software on Nov. 6, adding support for programs written in Java and Microsofts flavor of AJAX. The ...

If you’ve used Google Maps, Gmail or Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access, you’re familiar with the power of AJAX, which gives Web applications the responsiveness that users associate with desktop ...