Although technologists have been calling for the marriage of hot technologies such as SOAs and AJAX to help users better leverage Web services, the industry is only now beginning to see products that fully support this integration.

IBM has developed a JavaScript tool it says will make it easy for business analysts and other nonprogrammers to build basic, interactive Web applications. ... David Boloker, IBM's CTO of emerging technology, unveiled the tool during a keynote at the AJAXWorld show on Wednesday in Santa Clara, Calif. The first version of the tool won't be available until the end of the year. But a trial version will be made available in November ... Read More

In February, a group of technology vendors, including BEA Systems, Google, IBM, and Oracle, formed the OpenAjax Alliance OpenAjax Alliance ...One of the founders of OpenAjax was David Boloker, who holds the titles of distinguished engineer and CTO of emerging Internet technologies at the IBM software group. He also serves on the alliance's steering committee. Paul Krill spoke with Boloker at the AJAXWorld Conference and Expo on Wednesday about AJAX, the security issues around it, and the possibilities of other vendors such as Microsoft and Apple joining the alliance. ... Read More

"We're seeing a rise in web application attacks because people are realising that it is easier to go through the web application," Billy Hoffman, a lead security researcher with Spi Dynamics said.

"There is all sorts of money to be made in web [in]security. A lot of times, its easier to attack an application through the web layer than traditionally, by trying to break through the firewall of spoof around the intrusion detection system. Criminals take the path of least resistance," Hoffman said at the AjaxWorld conference in Santa Clara, California ... Read More

Nexaweb and JackBe Take Web 2 to the Enterprise
By John K. Waters
October 9, 2006

Last week's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo ... had the feel of an early JavaOne - which is to say, the place was positively quivering with possibility. There were some great sessions and demos (IBM's QEDwiki drag-and-drop mashup tool was my personal fav), and Jesse James Garrett (He Who Did Coineth Ajax) was there to bless the event ... Read More

This past week I spoke at the AJAXWorld Conference here in Santa Clara. Enjoyed giving my talk and had some great conversations afterward. But the highlight was getting to hear my fellow cube-mate, Doug Crockford, give his abbreviated Advanced JavaScript talk. Its definitely great material ... Read More

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AJAX World - Skyway Software Announces RIA Developer Contest By RIA News Desk According to Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, 'Our Skyway Community is thriving and our members are very talented. We truly look forward to their RIAs submittals and Skyway Builder extensions and are excited that all of the contributions will benefit the entire Skyway May. 9, 2008 07:30 AM

SYS-CON Media Distributes Collectible "Virtualization Journal Mugs" at JavaOne By Virtualization News Desk Virtualization Journal now reaches more than 60,000 online readers with monthly digital editions and weekly newsletters. The premier issue of the magazine's print edition, which debuts on May 6, 2008, at JavaOne in San Francisco, as a media sponsor of this event, will be available on n May. 8, 2008 06:45 PM

AJAX World - Cooking CRUD with Flex and BlazeDS By Yakov Fain In today's cooking class you'll add to your cookbook a delicious recipe. It's quick and won't cost you a dime. I'm sure you've been in one of these situations when you have unexpected guests arriving in 20 minutes and need to make a good impression. Let's create an application that Apr. 28, 2008 10:15 AM

AJAX World - Curl Launches Adobe AIR Competitor By RIA News Desk Curl announced the beta release of Curl Nitro, the code name for an extension of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform which offers enhanced desktop capabilities required by today's enterprises. The Nitro extension simplifies the process of installing and managing Curl appl Apr. 22, 2008 06:30 PM

Is the Silverlight Adoption Rate Artificially Inflated? By Kevin Hoffman Silverlight 2.0 is a freaking phenomenal RIA development environment and I would actually, at this point, put the development experience in Silverlight 2.0 above and beyond Flex. I can do more faster and have it look better and run more efficiently in Silverlight 2.0 than I can in Flex Apr. 21, 2008 05:45 PM

AJAX World - Adobe Flex 4 Is Shaping Up By Yakov Fain Adobe has published their first plan of what should be included in Flex 4 that is scheduled to release next year. Since Flex is an open source product, you have a say in this too. Obviously, there's a hope that upcoming Thermo release will bring together developers and designers. I'm c Apr. 21, 2008 05:45 PM

Silverlight 2 - Adobe Flex Killer Is on Its Way! By Kevin Hoffman Silverlight 2.0 kicks ass and I can't wait to start dropping more hardcore blog posts regarding it. Scott Guthrie's tutorials are a fantastic place to start. The issue I have, however, is that all of the tutorials assume you have installed Silverlight 2.0 tools for VS 2008. There is a Apr. 13, 2008 11:00 AM

Early Notes on GoogleApps By Dave Winer Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal because that's what you had to do to Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM

Adobe Wants to Be on the iPhone and Will "Reorganize" Its Mobile and Device Business Unit By Maureen O'Gara Rumor has it that in the next few weeks Adobe is going to 'reorganize' its Mobile and Device business unit where its Jobs-criticized Flash Lite lives and send the engineers to go work with the larger platform effort and Flash proper, which Jobs has also criticized. Presumably, Adobe is Apr. 7, 2008 02:45 PM

AJAXWorld and Bear Stearns By Yakov Fain This was the first time I've included into the list of the RIA players a little known product called Curl. Even though this language was created in MIT, it's mainly used in Japan. I had a chance to spend an hour with Curl folks today, and it seems that this language may be a good fit Apr. 7, 2008 09:00 AM

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Payless Car Rental Launches iPhone and iPod Touch Portal By iPhone News Desk Payless Car Rental has launched an iPhone and iPod Touch optimized website. Payless Car Rental is a car rental agency that built a customized version of its website for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The homepage of Payless' iPhone interface also features a 'Call to Book' button that May. 15, 2008 04:00 PM

Alpha Five Platinum Brings AJAX to the Enterprise By RIA News Desk Alpha Software is now shipping Alpha Five Platinum Edition, the ninth release of the company's flagship Web database development platform. It's a development tool that can visually build AJAX-powered applications, integrate SQL databases with drag+drop simplicity, and deliver ent May. 15, 2008 03:45 PM

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What's the Fastest Way to Get Data to AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, and JavaFX? By RIA News Desk 'Should CFML developers switch to Java?' asks Andrew Powell in an article this week at SYS-CON.com. 'No,' he answers. ColdFusion is the fastest way to get data to AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, and even JavaFX, according to Powell, who adds: 'ColdFusion also provides complex services e May. 15, 2008 05:00 AM

JavaOne 2008: Sun Talks Up its Late-to-the-Party AIR-Silverlight Rival By Maureen O'Gara At Java One this week Sun has been selling its year -old-but-still-upcoming - and definitely late-to-the-party - Adobe AIR- and Microsoft Silverlight-competitive JavaFX Rich Client environment as a potential revenue-generator capable of putting ads on mobile applications and JavaF May. 14, 2008 01:45 AM