AJAX Meetings

Conferences, seminars and workshops in 2006 was very important to exchange ideas, create new business opportunities and share AJAX experience with other professionals. It began with O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, The Ajax Experience, XTECH conference, One Day Workshop and finished by First AJAX Business Conference in Zurich.

Commercial AJAX

In addition to free tools available for developers there is many interesting commercial software for AJAX, I have named already Morfik WebOS, there is bunch of great tools from Scand LLC, Also SmartClient, Javeline DeskRun, Visual WebGui, AjaxFaces, TIBCO, Backbase and many others.Commercial AJAX software show a maturity of the technology, but we have to look also in the commercial AJAX applications created or the implementation of AJAX in commercial applications as many have already did to improve their applications and of course generate more sales.

AJAX in Government

This is a topic that I rarely talk about it, but since I'm directly involved with e-Government and web application development for Government administrations in intranet and extranet mainly, it's interesting to notice that AJAX is helping considerably to make a big change in the way that Government administrations work and will bring desktop application in a very easy and friendly way to the enduser. I'll certainly talk more in details about this in the future, but I'll be interested to hear experience of AJAX usage in e-Gov in your country.

Conclusion

2006 was already the year of AJAX, but I think in 2007 "AJAX" won't be anymore a buzzword like before but the technology will be more mature and widely adopted in web application development. But what do we need to make AJAX better, more experiences, more implementations, IDEs and tools, seminars and workshops ... ?

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