Go google. Google released an AJAX/ Java framework to beta today. Nice work. The demos look pretty cool. There are lots of these AJAX frameworks popping up these days.

Check out this demo - prettry nice ‘desktop clone’.

On a related note; a few weeks ago a google recruiter called me and said that they were looking for Java people experienced with Spring, Hibernate and other open source tools. Great - any of you Java folks lookin’ for work - comment to this post with some contact info and I will get you the google person’s email to talk to him. ( I will also edit your post not to include your contact info )
Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in the Java language

-Chris

I need a construct that I can use in general to show a chain of links…

For example:

I was reading Here in article X, then I linked through to Here in article Y, then I linked through to Here in article Z. From there I linked to article B and Article C.

This is a sort of directed graph - I could represent it with a simple XML Construct like:

I think a usage of XLink arc traversal coupled with XPointer for excerpts would do perfectly. The trick now is to make something that client app could use.. perhaps a lil’ ajaxy widget to show these things - lets call them xpaths - lol, nah - for some reason I think that would not do.. how about - LinkPaths.For example - this would work for the linking part - XLink arc traversals mostly. I would also like to include references via XPointer - but most of the web is still NON xml. What this menas is that if I where to reference another document - chances are - it would be an Html document - so I could not XPointer it. We could take these LinkPaths and embed them in a hidden div. If this was the case - we could show the data with an ajax widget. This would ALSO allow search engines or bots that support the protocol to find the LinkPaths and ultimately use them (if they needed).

I will work on a simple viewer for these things. I have often wanted to include the ‘path I followed to get somewhere’ This should do.

-Chris

Update: I need to add Comments to each lp:go element so that I can render comments about that reference. These should be XHTML perhaps. Also these could be organized in an OMPL list - outlining my various LinkPaths that I have followed. I also need some ‘ link rel=”tag” ‘ areas so that we could tag these links by topic. Then I could view how I was traversing topics (sort of)… More to come.

Atlas is microsoft’s framework for developing Ajax applications for ASP.Net 2.0. The latest is now the march CTP -moving up from ‘beta’ status to ‘community technology preview’. As much as I loathe the ‘ajax’ name and all of the hype around this old stuff - It is still as cool as it was when we did it 3 years ago (or longer).

-Chris

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