January 23, 2006

FacesClient

One of the big problems with developing web application is creating good interactivity for the user without having to refresh the page. Using multiple technologies like AJAX it is possible to enhance this interaction but the work required for developers to achieve this is great. Therefore using the Model View Controller (MVC) concepts from Java Server Faces the FacesClient has been developed. IBM has an implementation of this JavaScript library and components and is available from their AlphaWorks site in the Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK). If you would like to just have a read then below is a link to the FacesClient developer guide.

Links
Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK)
Faces for Laszlo
FacesClient Components, Part 1 : Portlet Programming with FacesClient Components
FacesClient Components Developer's Guide (second edition)

Posted by Egon Kuster at January 23, 2006 05:02 PM
Comments
Hi Egg, Ruby on Rails also has built in Ajax support. RoR makes it really easy to add rails functionality to your UI. In fact it is as easy to add Ajax as it is to not add Ajax. :) This is built on the Scriptaculous and Prototype javascript libraries, you can see a demo of some of the things it can do at http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Demos The demo includes standard autocomplete stuff and some cool drag and drop ajax shopping examples. I've tried some of the Ajax abstractions for J2EE before and found them overly complex requiring a tonne of parameters, or xml configuration files and require returned documents to be in a specific XML format. Im not sure if this Faces stuff makes it any easier. Anyway, you probably think Im stalking you now... seriously Im not... why doesnt this thing support paragraphs?? Posted by: Sean Geoghegan at January 28, 2006 12:29 AM