Davey Waterson is a JavaScript architect at Aptana. He started out with Cobol coded on punch cards running on a Burroughs B1700 through to a DHTML Web UI using xhtmlRequest and Async Java. Davey has more than 20 years or experience as a code junky technophile and has worked in the industry in both Europe and North America.
Aptana Jaxer is a new open source application server built especially for
AJAX application development in JavaScript. To say that "Jaxer lets you do
JavaScript on the server-side" would be accurate, but an understatement. The
core concept of Jaxer is that it provides a parity of environments at the
client and the server to simplify the creation of rich AJAX pages, apps, and
gadgets - and by so doing, gives the Web developer a unified runtime at both
the client and server tiers.
How does Jaxer achieve this parity of environments? The main engine in Jaxer
is the Mozilla engine - the same Mozilla engine you find in the Firefox Web
browser. This means that besides JavaScript on the server, you also have the
full spectrum of AJAX technologies available to you including DOM
manipulations, CSS, and XHR plus other goodies that Mozilla implements like
native XML support for... (more)
Davey Waterson is a JavaScript architect at Aptana. He started out with Cobol coded on punch cards running on a Burroughs B1700 through to a DHTML Web UI using xhtmlRequest and Async Java. Davey has more than 20 years or experience as a code junky technophile and has worked in the industry in both Europe and North America.
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