I cannot seem to get the table example to work and am wondering if you could help explain a bit more around it as with the other examples?

Great article to get people started. Many thanks,Dougal.

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Interesting enough is that all presentation code lies on server, client merely executes change orders sent by server.

AJAX can make the HTML user experience almost as pleasant as Flash. The main advantage of Flash, in spite of its vector animations, is that you never reload the page. Flash Remoting allows you to interface with the server in the background and AJAX does exactly the same for HTML pages.

AJAX can make the HTML user experience almost as pleasant as Flash. The main advantage of Flash, in spite of its vector animations, is that you never reload the page. Flash Remoting allows you to interface with the server in the background and AJAX does exactly the same for HTML pages.

by the way, check out my latest alternative to cfajax. I developed an ajax CFC framework.

check it out at http://www.robgonda.com/blog/projects/ajaxcfc/

>> First of all, I really disagree on rising cost of developing AJAX applications.

Adding an AJAX feature means an extra task, no matter how simple it is. It gets worse when we add more codes to the client. It means you might have to replicate business logic to clients. It also means you have to maintain two copies of codes.

>> It definitely helps with dhtml and look and feel, but it does not automate AJAX at all, it makes it actually
>> more difficult. It seems like that in order to make it work you need to add your Java server-side code
>> within your view. That will make maintenance really tedious.

Whether to embed codes in the view is up to developers, not the framework itself. It is designed to speed up prototyping and customization. If MVC or other design patterns are required, developers need only to provide a map between components to the real class they want.

On the other hand, traditional AJAX apps required developers to embed JavaScript into HTML pages.

AJAX has different meanings to different people. For us, it means a technology to enable a rich user interface that communicates with the backend server. What ZK does is to abstract the interaction and communication to Java level and make to the server side, not JavaScript or decorated HTML, not at the client that you are used to.

BTW, for more info please visit my blog at http://www.robgonda.com/blog

Jim,

First of all, I really disagree on rising cost of developing AJAX applications. Au contraire, they are going down as more and more developers get into it.

Although I usually do not check seeding or spam, I decided to check the ZK project.

It definitely helps with dhtml and look and feel, but it does not automate AJAX at all, it makes it actually more difficult. It seems like that in order to make it work you need to add your Java server-side code within your view. That will make maintenance really tedious.

As AJAX gives Web applications a fresh look, the rising cost of developing AJAX applications is challenging its way to success.

That is the reason we founded the ZK project ( http://zk1.sourceforge.net ): make AJAX transparent to app developers.

ZK is an Open Source and Live Demo at http://www.potix.com/zkdemo/userguide.

ZK has the following characteristics.
* XUL-based Components.
* Event Driven Model.
* Server-Centric Processing.
* Script in Java and EL Expressions.

Kevin, good call. I usually do, but with the rush of getting the article out it slipped... Thanks for pointing it out.

By the way, can someone please fix this feedback tool?! I won't take 9 out of 10 posts I submit.

Kevin, good call. I usually do, but with the rush of getting the article out it slipped.
Thanks for pointing it out.

Excellent - you should scope your cfc vars however - makes it alittle easier to understand what vars come from where (arguments)

I've still yet to build my first AJAX request. Does that mean I'm too late to the party?

So is AJAX a download or is it a technique? Pafrdon my ignorance...only now I am seeing AJAX, AJAX, AJAX everywhere but I don't really know what it *is* yet