Category Archives: AJAX

New Release – Shine Reference Project

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Shine Technologies

We have a new release of the GWT/Spring Shine Reference project out here (ver 0.3), which is an important improvement on the previous releases. Now includes proper Data Layer : using Spring 2.5 annotations, Hibernate 3.2 and integrated HSQLDB runtime … Continue reading →

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Handling AJAX Errors using Prototype & Rails

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Shine Technologies

Ruby on Rails comes with a lot of nice helper methods for generating the JavaScript driving the AJAX calls to your controllers. Handling the responses from the HTTP server becomes a snap too, with Rails providing a few simple callbacks … Continue reading →

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The Three Amigos – Maven, Spring and GWT

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Shine Technologies

Once in a while new technologies mature and coalesce together to provide a new and viable platform that radically change the traditional development landscape. In recent years Ruby on Rails has been the poster child of all that is new … Continue reading →

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Plugins n Wrappers…

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Shine Technologies

Recently we completed a very interesting project with one of our major clients to develop a Firefox Plugin to give an alternative channel for information for the clients members. Some more details on the Press Release and here is a … Continue reading →

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JavaOne – AJAX performance tuning

Posted on May 12, 2007 by Shine Technologies

In a common theme from JavaOne, it appears you need to be spruiking a product to get a gig as a presenter, so I was almost lulled into a false sense of security when I went to a session on … Continue reading →

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JavaOne – AJAX Push

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Shine Technologies

The AJAX Push session was interesting, although right now I can’t see too many situations where Shine would need this kind of technology. Let’s put this in perspective with the decision tree for even thinking about it: your application is … Continue reading →

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JavaOne – Ruby on Rails Vs. JSF and jMaki

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Shine Technologies

Day two at JavaOne and I’ve been amazed at how many times presenters (including many Sun employees) have advocated Ruby on Rails during their presentations, be it running on JRuby or the native C Ruby implementation. The thing that I’m … Continue reading →

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JavaOne – Fast, Easy or Beautiful – pick 3 when building with GWT

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Shine Technologies

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) session today was very interesting. Without personal experience using it I am not going to comment on it too much, but there were some interesting things that came out of the session. Firstly, the GWT … Continue reading →

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