So it seems a ThinWire web application can quite easily be integrated with more advanced Java EE features. In the screenshot below you can see an updated version of my testing environment. The application now has a screen to query and update a MySQL database via a remote EJB session bean. This shows that the [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Web User Interfaces (AJAX and RIAs) category.
ThinWire progress
Over the last few days I’ve been working on developing an application designed to assess the potential of the ThinWire RIA platform as a tool for building production quality rich web applications.
The platform makes producing an application from scratch relatively effortless. There is some initial set-up involved – including removing the Mac files and folders [...]
Building a ThinWire application – prelude
The first important note to make about the ThinWire RIA platform is that it comes with fully buildable example applications. By fully buildable I mean straight out of the box you can delve into the applications, alter and redeploy them. This may seem like a commodity where learning a new platform is concerned but many [...]
Deliberating as to whether AJAX is actually a future-proof term
After thinking about my previous post for a second I realised that it is questionable as to whether it is really appropriate to use the term AJAX for many of the new ‘Rich Internet Application’ (RIA) platforms. All this jargon is harmful to the general perception of such technologies due to their inaccessibility to the [...]
ThinWire for AJAX development
ThinWire is an AJAX platform I’ve only fairly recently discovered, and feel unlike many others, worth a mention. The trouble with many AJAX platforms is that they tend to not offer a full package in terms of customisation and extensibility. My current favorite is GWT-Ext for its sheer versatility due to the server side code being pure [...]
GWT-ext common problems – the null pointer
I’ve been working a lot lately with the Google Web Toolkit Extensions rich user interface platform (GWT-ext).
While I don’t have the time to cover many of the issues relating to general usage of the API, from time to time I hope to post some useful information about it. Using GWT and the extension is a [...]
Some screenshots of my MenuBuild application
I’ve gradually been developing my menu building application into a distributed web system. It uses OpenLaszlo for the building front-end, java & jsps for the database storage and retrieval facilities and OpenLaszlo to correctly display the menu from provided settings.
Here’s a few screenshots to spice up this at times rather bland blog!
Some nice features to [...]
