OpenAjax Fulfilling AJAX's Promise
One would think that an industry would slow down as it matures, but the Web
has proven to be just the opposite. Innovations are happening at breakneck
speed. Companies have to move faster than ever to keep up and survive.
AJAX is clearly a case in point. The term "AJAX" was first mentioned publicly
in February 2005 by Jesse James Garrett. But roughly 18 months later, we have
hundreds of companies delivering AJAX products, dozens of AJAX open source
projects, and nearly everyone in the industry planning to adopt AJAX
techniques as part of their future Web development strategies.
OpenAjax How It Was Born
In late 2005, thanks largely to the globetrotting of David Boloker, IBM's CTO
of Emerging Internet Technologies, a small number of lead... (more)
Hard-nosed executives recognize that there are costs associated with any
benefit. To convince today's upper-level decision makers to approve strategic
investments, they need to hear more than phrases like "essential to the
business," "the results are too unpredictable," and "yields intangible
benefits." In the world of Web development, the move from HTML to
AJAX-powered HTML can often be... (more)
After years of dominance by a single browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer
(IE), and few advances within IE, the world has changed. There is now healthy
competition among multiple browsers over standards compliance, AJAX features,
AJAX performance and trustworthy computing. The competition is reaching
beyond the desktop to include the emerging world of mobile browsing. This
healthy comp... (more)
The OpenAjax Alliance is developing an AJAX industry wishlist for future
browsers, using a dedicated wiki. The feature list now lists 37 separate
feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas, such as
security, Comet, multimedia, CSS, interactivity, and performance. The goal is
to inform the browser vendors about what the Ajax developer community feels
are most important fo... (more)
The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source
projects, and companies using AJAX that are dedicated to the successful
adoption of open and interoperable AJAX-based Web technologies. This article
introduces the alliance's first major technical product, OpenAjax Hub 1.0.
The OpenAjax Hub is a set of standard JavaScript that, when included with an
AJAX-powered Web ... (more)
Jon Ferraiolo is an employee of IBM within its Emerging Internet Technologies group. Jon is devoted exclusively to OpenAjax Alliance, where he manages operations and leads many activities.Before joining IBM in 2006, Jon worked at Adobe for 13 years where he was an architect, engineering manager and product manager.
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