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Oracle to Boost AJAX, Java

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-doesn't-like-a-little-pick-me-up dept.

InfoWorldMike writes "Oracle will submit its AJAX render kit to the open source community, and announce a reference implementation of the Java Persistence Architecture at next week's JavaOne conference." From the article: "To bolster AJAX, Oracle will submit its AJAX render kit to the open source community as a follow-up to a previous donation of JavaServer Faces (JSF) components. 'It allows people to work with the JSF components but [they] can display that using AJAX technology, which basically allows them to [have] a much richer environment in the browser,' said Ted Farrell, chief architect and vice president of tools and middleware at Oracle. "

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  1. grar by GigsVT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Am I the only one that cringes when people say they want to give me a "richer environment"?

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    1. Re:grar by baadger · · Score: 2, Interesting

      a richer environment is what you give plants when you give in the form of manure.

  2. Good open source support from Oracle by tcopeland · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I was working on the PMD plugin for JDeveloper I had some problems getting it up to date for JDev 10.1.3. But a couple of Oracle guys monitor the JDev forums and were quite helpful in sorting through the updates.

    End result was that I was able to get rid of a bunch of my old JList hackery and just use their built in CompilerPage component; good times. Screenshots are here...

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  3. Hopefully, you are the only one.... by ip_freely_2000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AJAX and techs of it's ilk are providing corporate developers the tools to better address business requirements and do it faster. Part of the long-term stateless web-based app dev that we've been suffering through since the client/server days has been presentation and smarter data delivery between the user and the back-end.

    I've never been one to jump on bandwagons, but AJAX really does make not only my job easier, but the 'richer' apps make the business-side end-user's job easier as well.

  4. Re:Listen ... can you hear it ? by Saanvik · · Score: 2, Informative
    Although the parent post could be thought of as a troll, I think it's just a typical response by someone that hasn't kept up with Oracle. If you think it's 7+ years since Oracle's done anything in the Java market, then you haven't been paying attention.

    OAS was discontinued several (3?) years ago. It was crap. Oracle acknowledged it, bought the code for the Orion app server, updated it, added functionality, and released it as their app server. It's a very powerful product, and has very good performance.

    TopLink is an Oracle product. TopLink is one of the best ORM projects available.

    ADF is a very powerful enterprise level development framework.

    Oracle is one of the major players in creating and releasing JSF components.

    Oracle JDeveloper is a very powerful and free Java IDE.

    The reality is that Oracle's Java offerings are quite good now, much better than when you last looked.