Ajax Experience: What's interesting for Java developers?
Saturday 7 July 2007
"The Ajax Experience, scheduled for July 25-27 2007 in San Francisco, has a lot of great sessions of interest to Java developers - whether you're following JSF, GWT, Struts, or even hand-coding your client-side UIs yourself. The Ajax Experience caters to the technology behind Web 2.0 - you should check it out.
Topical tracks include architecture, performance, design and effects, and specific frameworks. Speakers include framework developers like Brad Neuberg (Dojo), Patrick Lightbody (Struts2), Joe Walker (DWR), and more. Specific sessions of interest to Java developers include "Flash: Strengths vs. Weaknesses and How to Best Utilize it in Projects," by Geoff Stearns, a Youtube engineer; Advanced Prototype usage (Prototype is the underlying toolkit used by many Ajax frameworks); Continuations in Javascript; Advanced Web Security with Joe Walker, and more.
Of course, these are only the tip of the iceberg for Ajax developers.
So what makes this conference useful? Well, consider: for most users and applications, the web interface is the primary (or even only) point of contact. The back end may be elegant, incredibly fast, amazingly efficient, but with a clunky interface, nobody will care. The killer applications today tend to focus on the user experience: useful menus, dynamic behavior that caters to the way users want to use the application.
With a few rare exceptions, the way people make their application interfaces sing today is with Ajax, rich client interfaces that offer interactivity and rapid response to users.
The Ajax Experience is a great way for Java developers to leverage this technology, whether as experts or as people needing introduction to the concepts, whether you need to understand how the basic architecture works or if you need to optimize how your application already leverages the technology.
What stands out to you in the Ajax Experience?"
By TheServerSide.COM
Posted byEugene at 06:53