Related to prior art: there were already discussions about this subject when the GWT v.s. Morfik case emerged a few months back. The Morfik toolkit itself is in development for over six years now (at least) so one should seek evidence prior 2000, I suppose. And AFAIS Morfik's patent involves not only the fact of "translation" ("what") but also the method (the "how") that they call JST (JavaScript Synthesis Technology).
I will be looking into the Morfik patent from this technical perspective and through the looking glass of a convert Morfik developer, as soon as I can at piBlog (http://www.pannonrex.com/blog).
We were in a similar situation a couple of years ago and developed Menturio (http://www.menturio.com/) for our internal use. Since we wanted to share it with our clients we prettied it up somewhat. It is PHP/MySQL based. It grew incrementally and now has a lot of features our partners needed (e.g. email based tracking and adding, meeting planning, etc.) but in the last couple of years it did not change much (being perfect:-) -- indeed we are contemplating a 2.0 with a complete re-write to take advantage of all the current AJAX trends.
Most importantly what started us rolling our own was the idea of all other solutions that usability (==efficiency of use) is not to be considered. For example, when I test software I typically find tens of issues and/or ideas and it is simply a pain to go through the Add New Bug form ten times to fill out the same meta info again and again. Why don't we have the option of entering multiple items in one run? Or, after a meeting, when we went through the list of open issues, why should I enter the Modify Issue form for the hundred or so items one by one? Questions like that...
I just mused about the search-unfriendliness of AJAX apps yesterday and how that could be solved and today the big three are banging (almost) the same door.
What do you think how could we go about solving the issue?
Check out our site. We have been specializing in very long term ccoperations (e.g. 5+ years and 10+ projects for a US client) for mission critical solutions. I'd be delighted to discuss your needs.
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Related to prior art: there were already discussions about this subject when the GWT v.s. Morfik case emerged a few months back. The Morfik toolkit itself is in development for over six years now (at least) so one should seek evidence prior 2000, I suppose. And AFAIS Morfik's patent involves not only the fact of "translation" ("what") but also the method (the "how") that they call JST (JavaScript Synthesis Technology). I will be looking into the Morfik patent from this technical perspective and through the looking glass of a convert Morfik developer, as soon as I can at piBlog (http://www.pannonrex.com/blog).
We were in a similar situation a couple of years ago and developed Menturio (http://www.menturio.com/) for our internal use. Since we wanted to share it with our clients we prettied it up somewhat. It is PHP/MySQL based. It grew incrementally and now has a lot of features our partners needed (e.g. email based tracking and adding, meeting planning, etc.) but in the last couple of years it did not change much (being perfect:-) -- indeed we are contemplating a 2.0 with a complete re-write to take advantage of all the current AJAX trends.
Most importantly what started us rolling our own was the idea of all other solutions that usability (==efficiency of use) is not to be considered. For example, when I test software I typically find tens of issues and/or ideas and it is simply a pain to go through the Add New Bug form ten times to fill out the same meta info again and again. Why don't we have the option of entering multiple items in one run? Or, after a meeting, when we went through the list of open issues, why should I enter the Modify Issue form for the hundred or so items one by one? Questions like that...
If anyone is interested, let me know.
I just mused about the search-unfriendliness of AJAX apps yesterday and how that could be solved and today the big three are banging (almost) the same door. What do you think how could we go about solving the issue?
Check out our site. We have been specializing in very long term ccoperations (e.g. 5+ years and 10+ projects for a US client) for mission critical solutions. I'd be delighted to discuss your needs.
Bests,
Peter