Jon Ferraiolo

Presentations

OpenAjax Alliance - Driving Ajax Standards and Interoperability

Jon will provide an update on the latest news from OpenAjax Alliance, an organization of more than 80 leading companies and open source projects that are working together to define Ajax standards that promote Ajax interoperability and customer success. The talk will explain the role of OpenAjax Alliance within the Ajax ecosystem and highlight its recent accomplishments and current activities. There will be a special focus on the OpenAjax Hub, the first major standard to emerge out of OpenAjax Alliance. The Hub is a small amount of client-side JavaScript that allows multiple Ajax toolkits to participate on the same Web page, such as within a mashup. The talk will also highlight other important activities at OpenAjax Alliance, such as standards activities around Ajax IDEs, Mobile Ajax, Ajax Security, Comet-based client-server communications, the OpenAjax Registry, and runtime performance monitoring.

Interoperable Ajax Tools and Mashups

This session will describe current work at OpenAjax Alliance around Ajax tooling and Ajax mashups. Ajax developer tools have been hampered by lack of interoperability among various IDEs and Ajax toolkits. This session will introduce a new XML industry standard, OpenAjax Metadata for Ajax Libraries, designed at OpenAjax Alliance's IDE committee by representatives from Adobe, Aptana, Eclipse/ATF, and Microsoft Visual Studio. This standard will result in plug&play between Ajax IDEs and toolkits. The second major topic in this session focuses on mashups. Mashups have the potential for revolutionizing the way Web applications are developed where users create their own applications, but there are interoperability challenges and security risks. In order to unleash the industry, OpenAjax Alliance has developed an open source secure mashup framework as part of OpenAjax Hub 1.1 (leveraging a set of techniques called "SMash" that were originally developed by IBM Research and allows for secure mashups that run in today's browsers) and a companion set of widget standards (OpenAjax Metadata for Widgets). The session will introduce OpenAjax Metadata, mashups, and OpenAjax Hub 1.1, and will showcase results from the alliance’s InteropFest that where multiple leading Ajax IDEs, Ajax toolkits, mashup and widget vendors leverage these technologies to achieve secure mashups and interoperability.