Building Rich-Client-Like Web Apps With Echo

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 9, 2003 @12:35PM from the stack-em-like-bricks dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "IBM developerWorks is running a feature on the 'Echo' project, which is used for creating web apps that 'look and act like rich clients.' Echo uses HTML and JavaScript to render a user-interface in the browser instead of client-side plugins like Java WebStart. The API is similar to that of Swing. The article examines an example email client written with the technology. The framework itself is built on Java servlets, and is distributed under the LGPL. More examples can be found here."

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Doesn't work in Firebird by Peter+Cooper · 2003-09-10 03:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This framework is appalling. I'd expect better from IBM, and I don't even have that high an opinion of them!

Standards compliant XHTML and CSS are the way to go with Web based apps. Sure, on old/non-standard browsers the pages might look like ass, but they should work.

Unlike this.. which only seems to work in my IE6, but not my browser of choice.