JWAX - A Little Raw

Dietrich Kappe, Wednesday, May 24, 2006 @ 9:00 am

Yet another client-side AJAX component GUI framework is JWAX. The class model resembles that of Swing somewhat and a seperate rendering layer realizes the components in the presentation medium of choice. Right now only DHTML is done, but XUL XAML and support for custom renderers are planned.

The demo is a bit raw, with most of the app not working in a recent version of Firefox and strange menu, tree, dragging and other behavior in IE 6. Since one of the main selling points of a framework is that you can implement cross browser support in a relatively compact rendering layer and client engine, this failing is unforgiveable. Let this one ripen for another 6 months and check back.

Update 1: I was incorrect in identifying this as a server-side framework (odd, since I tinkered with the client-side Javascript code a bit). I've corrected the information above. It is still is a bit raw, however. Thanks to the reader who caught the mistake.

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   Dietrich JWAX appears to be client side AJAX Framework (client can render pages on the fly) and not server side. Looks to be server technology agnostic.

   Since it’s open source you should help them with their unforgiveable issues you mention.

   targa

   Comment by targa, Thursday, May 25, 2006 @ 3:14 pm

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