"AJAX developers brought Web 2.0 to the browser," says Adobe's Kevin Hoyt. "Now they can leverage their JavaScript and HTML skills - as well as the IDEs they are familiar with and already use - to build the next generation of desktop applications that span platforms." Hoyt will be giving a session at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West next month (September 23-26) at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It is titled "AJAX in a Desktop World."
Hoyt, a Platform Evangelist with Adobe,
will demonstrate how to extend rich Internet application (RIA) development outside of the browser using AJAX with Adobe AIR - Adobe’s cross-operating system application runtime.
The concepts that will be introduced include native windows, native drag-and-drop, native clipboard support, local file IO, and persistence to a local database. In other news SYS-CON Events announced yesterday that AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West main sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! The limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be sold out soon. The new sponsors who joined the conference this week, and are not yet listed on the conference Website, will also be announced later in the week.
The charter sponsors of the most significant Rich Internet Applications event of the year include:
Laszlo Systems [Diamond Sponsor]: Laszlo
Systems is the original developer of the open source platform OpenLaszlo, and
provider of Rich Internet Applications and services that advance the Web
experience. OpenLaszlo is an XML-native foundation for building next-generation
Web applications that increase customer retention, conversion and brand
loyalty. Laszlo provides comprehensive support services, education, and
commercial application modules so that any company can easily make the move to
Rich Internet Applications.
Cynergy Systems [Platinum Sponsor]: Cynergy
Systems delivers Web, RIA and Legacy Migration solutions to over 1,400
customers worldwide. Maintaining offices across three continents and leveraging
over a decade of experience, Cynergy Systems focuses on the delivery of rich,
powerful business applications to customers across dozens of verticals
including Healthcare, Manufacturing, Banking, and Governmental Organizations.
Partners include Adobe, Microsoft, Sybase, Percussion Software and Jive Software.
IBM [Platinum Sponsor]: IBM is a key
supporter of industry standards like AJAX and
shows leadership in innovations in this emerging technology through
participation in OpenAjax, an open industry collaboration dedicated to
developing and expanding AJAX.
Leverage the power of IBM on your AJAX
development projects. Whether you're looking for free Web-based training ,
technical articles, or to interact and get your questions answered through
forums, you can find all the resources you are looking for on IBM
developerWorks.
JackBe [Platinum Sponsor]: JackBe is the
leader in Enterprise Mashups. JackBe’s Presto is an Enterprise Mashup platform
where users create, customize and collaborate for unparalleled efficiency and
productivity. Presto allows business units to immediately respond to
information needs, saving time through trusted sharing and ultimately providing
users with the flexibility needed to create dynamic, reusable mashups. JackBe
provides a new user-driven tier of integration technology to power enterprise
mashups. JackBe’s standards-based Presto mashup platform unites the strengths
of AJAX, SOA
and existing IT investments to empower enterprise users.
Backbase [Gold Sponsor]: Backbase is the
leading provider of AJAX-based rich Internet application (RIA) software and
solutions. Backbase software provides a comprehensive AJAX development framework that is based on
open standards, is easy to learn by developers, and integrates seamlessly into
existing IT environments. Developers use Backbase AJAX software to create rich
applications that deliver a superior end-user experience. Founded in 2003,
Backbase is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
ICEsoft [Gold Sponsor]: ICEsoft is the
leading open source AJAX
framework for enterprise Java developers. ICEfaces leverages the entire
standards-based Java EE ecosystem of tools and execution environments. Rich
enterprise application features are developed in pure Java and in a pure
thin-client model. There are no applets or proprietary browser plug-ins
required. ICEfaces applications are JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications, so
Java EE application development skills apply directly and Java developers are
isolated from doing any JavaScript-related development. ICEfaces is also the
only enterprise AJAX
framework on the market today that delivers unique AJAX Push capabilities.
Kaazing [Gold Sponsor]: Kaazing,
headquartered in Silicon Valley,
California, was founded for the
purpose of delivering the best possible real-time experience for the Internet.
Kaazing provides real-time software solutions to customers who really care
about their end-user experience when it comes to usability, scalability, and
performance. In addition to providing commercial enterprise software that
delivers the best Internet real-time experience possible, Kaazing also provides
support, training, and consulting services.
Kapow Technologies
[Gold Sponsor]: Kapow Technologies is a market leader in Mashup Serving,
Feed Serving and Web Scraping software that enables companies to deploy
content-intensive applications, such as enterprise mashups and Web 2.0
services, at a fraction of the time and cost compared to traditional software
methods. Because of these benefits combined with the company’s patented, unique
visual scripting approach, Kapow Technologies is one of the fastest-growing
software firms in the world, with more than 200 customers including Global 2000
firms such as AT&T, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, CSFB, Intel, Vodafone, U.S.
Army, Audi and DHL. The company also serves Web 2.0 startups including
SimplyHired and Momondo.
Microsoft [Gold Sponsor]: Microsoft
technologies enable designers and developers to create next-generation Web
experiences. With frameworks like ASP.NET AJAX, you can quickly create pages
with sophisticated, responsive user interfaces and more efficient client/server
communication by simply adding a few server controls to your pages. Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their
full potential.
Nexaweb [Gold Sponsor]: Nexaweb’s
Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions enable enterprises to rapidly deploy Richer,
Thinner, Faster applications over the Web. Specifically, applications built
with Nexaweb deliver the high performance and robust functionality of
client/server software with the universal reach, no-install deployment and
centralized management of browser-based applications. With Nexaweb, building
enterprise-strength RIA solutions using AJAX
and Java UI applications that access legacy and service-oriented data systems
is simple. And because it’s done in a unified declarative XML development
environment, it doesn’t require rewriting code. Only Nexaweb’s comprehensive
Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions are backed by an established methodology and
reference architecture proven by more than 5,000 successful global deployments.
Sun Microsystems [Gold Sponsor]: Sun
Microsystems, a creator and industry-leading advocate of emerging technologies,
is revolutionizing and redefining system-wide management of rich,
standards-compliant, Internet applications for the next-generation Web. A
singular vision – “The Network Is the Computer” – guides Sun in the development
of state-of-the-art, power-efficient servers and storage systems to
award-winning, open-source based software offerings. When it comes to Web 2.0
technologies, Sun provides best-of-breed solutions to enterprises and startups
worldwide for developing, deploying, and managing the next wave of computing.
Tele Atlas [Gold
Sponsor]: Tele Atlas is a leading global provider of digital maps and
dynamic location content for navigation and location-based solutions; this
information powers some of the world’s most essential navigation and LBS
solutions, including a wide range of personal and in-car navigation systems and
mobile, Internet and geospatial applications that help users find the people,
places and services they need, wherever they are. Tele Atlas partners also
trust its digital map data to deliver critical applications for emergency,
business, fleet, and infrastructure services. Through a combination of its own
products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers digital map coverage of more than
200 countries and territories worldwide.
TIBCO Software [Gold Sponsor]: TIBCO Software
is a leading business integration and process management software company that
enables real-time business. TIBCO has delivered the value of real-time
business, what TIBCO calls The Power of Now®, to over 3,000 customers around
the world and in a wide variety of industries. TIBCO provides innovative
software that enables interoperability between applications and information
sources, coordinates processes that span systems and people, and helps
companies sense and respond to events and opportunities more quickly and with
more certainty and control. TIBCO provides a comprehensive set of
standards-based software that helps organizations achieve the benefits of
real-time business in a way that not only leverages all of their existing
assets, but can actually increase their effectiveness and value.
Quasar Technologies [Silver Sponsor]:
Quasar Technologies is a global provider of Web 2.0 AJAX-based ECP (Enterprise
Content Publishing) solutions allowing any type of user to work with high-end
print publishing tools in one common platform where users connect and work from
anywhere in the world in a virtual, collaborative, real-time environment where
all processes are controlled, streamlined and fully automated throughout the
entire cycle. Quasar ensures that the extended content value chain from
creation to end production is optimized, coordinated and simplified – enabling
highly advanced, professional functionalities throughout all facets of the
process while eliminating the need for highly skilled users.
Rearden Commerce [Silver Sponsor]: Rearden
Commerce provides the first online personal assistant that helps people quickly
find, purchase, and manage the services they need, based on personal
preferences and company policies. The Rearden Commerce Personal Assistant
provides easy access to the world’s largest marketplace for services, instantly
connecting people to more than 137,000 merchants. Whether it’s booking a flight
or a hotel, making a restaurant reservation, finding event tickets, scheduling
a conference call or shipping a package, the Rearden Commerce Personal
Assistant simplifies the complex services landscape into one user-friendly
experience.
Web Spiders [Silver Sponsor]: Web Spiders
is a global provider of rich Internet application (RIA/Flex) development
services and systems integration services for independent software vendors and
corporations. With our offshore delivery centers in India
and account centers in Europe and America, we bridge the
offshore-onsite gap enabling our customers to achieve lower cost of ownership,
reduce risk and accelerate ‘go-to-market’ strategies.
ILOG, Inc. [Expo Floor Sponsor]: ILOG delivers
software that empowers our customers to make better decisions, faster. Over
2,000 global corporations and more than 400 leading software vendors rely on
ILOG's market-leading visualization, business rule management system, and
optimization software components to achieve dramatic returns on investment, and
create market-defining products and services. Visit us to learn about ILOG JViews,
our customizable Java and AJAX
display components for building diagrams, dashboards, maps, schedules and
charts. ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 730 people worldwide.
Krugle [Expo Floor Sponsor]: Krugle, the code
search engine for developers, was founded in 2005 around the concept of
search-driven development. The Krugle Enterprise appliance indexes code and
presents it in the context of other software assets that developers manage
throughout the application development process. Krugle’s context-based search
provides valuable insights to enterprise development resources that are
information-rich but typically difficult to get to in a usable way. Krugle
offers a free public site targeted at individual developers looking to leverage
the 2.1 billion lines of publicly available code in our index.
OpSource [Expo Floor Sponsor]: OpSource™, the SaaS
delivery experts, is focused on providing the operational infrastructure and
ongoing services that enable software companies, On-Demand businesses, and Web
application providers to deliver and maintain the highest quality Web-based
solutions. By choosing OpSource as a SaaS partner, OpSource customers are freed
from infrastructure management and can focus on improving applications and
acquiring new customers. The OpSource On-DemandSM infrastructure enables
businesses to deploy SaaS and Web-based applications quickly, cost-effectively,
securely, and with high-quality standards.
Vertex Logic [Expo Floor Sponsor]: Vertex Logic
delivers Rich Internet Web 2.0 solutions that are especially targeted toward
community-collaboration and rich user interfaces with images. Each solution
delivered by Vertex Logic is built using its core platform called AjaxFace.
AjaxFace is a model-driven platform with server- and client-side components
that work in cohesion. AjaxFace Client supports RIA using AJAX and Flash. AjaxFace server is a
Java-based model-driven platform built on the top of Enterprise Java,
Hibernate, Tomcat and various other open source technologies. Our platform
empowers us to be productive and cost-effective in the delivery of various
solutions.
The conference now includes the world-famous AJAXWorld University's AJAX Developer Bootcamp, OpenLaszlo Track, and Adobe Flex 3 Developer Bootcamp. This year’s AJAXWorld Expo Floor is expected to display bleeding-edge RIA technologies from more than 75 leading AJAX vendors.
AJAXWorld 2007 East Conference & Expo Sponsored by the World's Top Web 2.0 and RIA Technology Leaders!AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East sponsors and exhibitors included:
Laszlo Systems (Diamond Sponsor),
JackBe (Platinum Sponsor),
Adobe (Platinum Sponsor),
Cynergy (Platinum Sponsor),
Backbase (Gold Sponsor)
Google (Gold Sponsor),
Nexaweb (Gold Sponsor),
ICEsoft (Gold Sponsor),
Oracle (Gold Sponsor),
Helmi Technologies (Gold Sponsor),
JetBrains (Gold Sponsor),
TIBCO (Gold Sponsor),
Kapow Technologies (Gold Sponsor),
Sun Microsystems (Silver Sponsor),
Parasoft (Silver Sponsor),
Servoy (Silver Sponsor),
Etelos (Silver Sponsor),
Microsoft (Expo Plus Sponsor),
Lightstreamer (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor),
IT Mill (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor),
FrogLogic (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor),
ThinWire (Expo Sponsor),
Quasar Tecnologies (Expo Sponsor),
Zapatec (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor),
MB Technologies Bindows (Exhibitor),
OpenSpot (Exhibitor),
ILOG (Exhibitor),
Passport Corporation (Exhibitor),
Addison-Wesley (Exhibitor),
The Thomson Corporation (Exhibitor),
Isomorphic Software-SmartClient (Exhibitor),
Universal Mind (Exhibitor),
Farata Systems (Exhibitor Plus),
Manning Publications (AJAX Book Sponsor),
Apress (AJAX Book Sponsor),
Conference Guru (Media Sponsor),
Flash Goddess (Media Sponsor),
AJAXWorld Magazine (Media Sponsor),
Web 2.0 Journal (Media Sponsor),
SYS-CON.TV (Media Sponsor),
IT Mill (Media Sponsor),
Methods & Tools (Media Sponsor),
Web 2.0 Journal (Media Sponsor), and
OASIS.
