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Heading off to Ajax Experience

mkaply — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:50:58 +0000

As part of my whirlwind tour talking about the Ajax Toolkit Framework, I’ll be headed to Ajax Experience in Boston.

This presentation will be about using Eclipse for JavaScript development, with an emphasis on the work we did to embed Mozilla in Eclipse and provide access to various browser tooling, including JavaScript debugging, CSS tools, etc. We’ll also talk about JSDT which is the new JavaScript editor we are working on for Eclipse.

If you are in town, look me up. My presentation is Thursday at 2:10.

ATF at Eclipse Summit Europe 2007

mkaply — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:27:02 +0000

If you’re wondering why I’ve been quiet, it’s because I’m at Eclipse Summit Europe 2007 in Germany demoing and talking about the AJAX Toolkit Framework. While I’m here, though, I’ve seen some interesting technology I wanted to share.

qooxdoo is a very cool looking AJAX toolkit that’s actually been around quite a while. Right now it’s more geared toward building an application from the ground up. The widgets look amazing! Check out the demo. Incidentally, the RAP project is using qooxdoo to render RCP applications in the browser.

When I first heard about Jazz, I thought it was yet another bug system. Boy was I wrong. This is a very cool tool set that helps people collaboratively build software. It’s being used by the Jazz team to build Jazz. You should take a look.

That’s all for now. Next up is a week at home and then off to Ajax Experience. See you there!

AJAX Toolkit Framework

mkaply — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:11:59 +0000

Some of you may not be aware of another project being worked on by members of my team callled the AJAX Toolkit Framework (ATF). ATF provides an AJAX Tooling Environment in Eclipse that includes things like a DOM Inspector, an HTTP request monitor, JavaScript debugger, JavaScript editor with validation and code completion, and more. This functionality was created by embedding Mozilla technology into Eclipse using JavaXPCOM.

What’s exciting is that we final got all through all the legal hurdles so you can now download one package that contains the entire environment, with stuff that isn’t relevant to ATF removed. So just download the M4 milestone from here, unzip it and you can try it out. If you want to see how it works, you can check out the demos, but note that we are in the process of updating those to the new version.

I’ll be at AJAXWorld next week talking about this project so feel free to look me up. I’ll definitely be at the ATF presentation on Monday at 5:40 and I’ll probably be hanging around IBM booth on the Expo Floor at other times. If you want to set up a time to meet with me about something specific while I’m out there, feel free to contact me.