Builder.com has an article about JBoss’s recent project typing AJAX and Java together. Their open source framework is called Seam. Google has a similar AJAX toolkit for Java programmers as well. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know important this site will be for many of you, but Aharef has a Java Applet creating a graph of a site and it seems pretty cool to me. It uses the elements within a given webpage and creates a tree based on those elements. What’s pretty cool is the hierarchy of the site is described through the nodes of the tree and the colored nodes representing different elements. Read the rest of this entry »

When writing scripts, I didn’t think white space would affect my code so much. A space is still considered a character though and it does take up file space. By using the Java tool Dojo to compress JavaScript files, removing white space reduces a 321B file down to 140B. While this might not seem like that much with broadband connections out, it makes a difference. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) written in Java to allow easy implementation of AJAX applications for web developers. What the Google Web Toolkit does is takes the developers Java code and converts it to HTML and JavaScript for use in an AJAX application. Read the rest of this entry »