Re:Is anyone else sad this caught on?
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Very good point.
I'm afraid that business folk dont realise the potential dangers of unstructured unweildy application that can only be maintained by the original programmer. The fact there's a buzzy new word to band about (i.e AJAX) means the technology is bound to get miss-applied. Akin to what happended with EJB.
Still as I've said elsewhere AJAX probably has uses for projects that lean towards the fancy web-site rather than complex business web-application solutions. At least I hope so!
Re:AJAX vs. Java Applet ??
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Absolutely right. This is what came to my mind when I first got wind of AJAX.
It seems to me that the whole layered abstractions that go into a 'well designed' app has jumped up a tier with AJAX. For example the server-side is reduced to nothing more than a persistance engine and HTTP some sort of labotomised JDBC communication channel! For little benefit too - no descent development tools - no debugger - no true Object Orientation.
It'd be madness to use it for any heavyweight business applications. It probably has it's place to the leightweight stuff (those apps leaning more toward web-sites than web-apps. e.g. Google Maps).
The thing is Java Applets are seriously out of fashion. Plus, you don't have to be in the business too long to see the attention and hype a new buzz word can generate. Time will tell...
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Very good point. I'm afraid that business folk dont realise the potential dangers of unstructured unweildy application that can only be maintained by the original programmer. The fact there's a buzzy new word to band about (i.e AJAX) means the technology is bound to get miss-applied. Akin to what happended with EJB. Still as I've said elsewhere AJAX probably has uses for projects that lean towards the fancy web-site rather than complex business web-application solutions. At least I hope so!
Absolutely right. This is what came to my mind when I first got wind of AJAX.
It seems to me that the whole layered abstractions that go into a 'well designed' app has jumped up a tier with AJAX. For example the server-side is reduced to nothing more than a persistance engine and HTTP some sort of labotomised JDBC communication channel! For little benefit too - no descent development tools - no debugger - no true Object Orientation.
It'd be madness to use it for any heavyweight business applications. It probably has it's place to the leightweight stuff (those apps leaning more toward web-sites than web-apps. e.g. Google Maps).
The thing is Java Applets are seriously out of fashion. Plus, you don't have to be in the business too long to see the attention and hype a new buzz word can generate. Time will tell...