Jon Hoffman is a systems operation manager. His primary responsibility is developing Web-based applications in Java. DWR has allowed Jon to turn Web sites and Web pages into Web applications.
Putting AJAX functionality into your Web application can be a daunting task
when you're first learning AJAX. After all you're a Java programmer not a
JavaScript programmer. It can also be very frustrating having to learn how
the different browsers handle XMLHttpRequests. It's been reported, however,
that Internet Explorer 7 will support native XMLHttpRequests rather than
requiring the developer to make ActiveX requests. This will make a Web
developer's life a lot easier.
For Java Developers there are a number of different frameworks/libraries that
hide most of the complexity of developing AJAX-enabled Web applications. For
this purposes of this article I'll be using one of those libraries called DWR
or Direct Web Remoting (http://getahead.itd.uk/dwr/). I chose DWR becaus... (more)
Jon Hoffman is a systems operation manager. His primary responsibility is developing Web-based applications in Java. DWR has allowed Jon to turn Web sites and Web pages into Web applications.
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