February 11, 2007 Can Ajax be OS for the Browser? Kevin Hakman Co-Founder General Interface Ajax Toolkit Director, Developer Evangelism TIBCO Software Inc. Palo Alto, CA

February 11, 2007 The “birth” of Ajax 3/31/05: Google Pioneers Use of Old Microsoft Tools in New Web Programs “Ajax” ” “a big step toward the Holy Grail of having the kinds of speed and responsiveness in Web-based programs that's usually associated only with desktop software”

February 11, 2007 Evolution of Network Computing Richness of Features Ease of Deployment Terminal Client-Server HTML Pages Ajax RIA Ajax Pages

February 11, 2007 Ajax Enriched HTML Pages

February 11, 2007 Ajax RIA

February 11, 2007 Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Rich Internet Applications … Delivered over the Web –Lower TCO than thick client Look, feel and perform like desktop software GUIs –Higher efficiency than html pages –Richer functionality than html pages “Best of Both” By % of new applications will include “Rich Internet Applications” (RIA)

February 11, 2007 Desktop Responsiveness Rich GUI Stateful Event Driven

February 11, 2007 Ajax Architecture Strategies Enriched HTML pages –Hardwire Communications and data to DOM with procedural JavaScript Replace with new server generated HTML DOM chunks –Two Pass Parse and Replace DHTML replacement of “tags” in HTML page after the first load of the page JavaScript manipulation of DOM and JS Objects Ajax RIAs –Object based JavaScript Applications –Communication with services

February 11, 2007 Four Quantum States of Ajax A,J,&,X –All about communications. Where’s the GUI? DHTML Widgets –Enabled with async-communications (maybe) Multi-Widget Libraries –Shared underlying services Rich Internet Application Frameworks –Common GUI, data, communication framework –Ability to visually author GUIs & more

February 11, 2007 Four Quantum States of Ajax Richness of Features Complexity of Development AJ&X DHTML Widgets Libraries Ajax RIA Frameworks Enriched HTML Pages Rich Internet Applications Full Desktop Application Capabilities

February 11, 2007 Erosion of Desktop OS Ajax RIA minimizing the differences –Real-time data –Offline apps The “good enough” factor Firefox and Adobe will continue to press Microsoft to provide parity with its browser OpenAjax Alliance driving core standards

February 11, 2007 IBM SUN NOVELL TIBCO BEA SAP ADOBE ORACLE … & more

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February 11, 2007 History of the General Interface project 1999: GI 0.5 – Heavy interactivity in a browser (iKnowMed) 2001: GI 1.2 – Client-side MVC architecture and GUI generation (Iconix) 2002: GI 1.5 – Client/SOA 2003: GI 2.0 – Visual Development Tools 2004: GI 2.4 – TIBCO Acquisition; richer applications and developer tools 2005: GI 3.0 – Faster development, richer UI, basic charting package, visual SOA integration 2006: GI 3.1 – 100+ Components GI 3.2 – Released under Open Source BSD License 2007: GI 3.3 – added IE7 & FX2 support

February 11, 2007 Where is GI being used?

February 11, 2007 Utility Call Center

February 11, 2007 Rich Portlets

February 11, : DOD

February 11, 2007 Real-Time Market Data

February 11, 2007 DOHA Stock Exchange

February 11, 2007 Real-Time Dashboard

February 11, 2007 Visual Authoring Environment

February 11, 2007 The Big Shift Static HTMLPages View Model Controller Web Server Web Browser Server Centric

February 11, 2007 Client-Side Processing RIA View Model Controller Web Server Web Browser View Model Controller Client Centric

February 11, 2007 RIA View Model Controller Web Server Web Browser View Model Controller Client Centric SOA Client-Side Processing

February 11, 2007 Evolution from 3-Tier to SOA HTML Pages http 1.0 Web Server Ajax Pages async http Point Service Ajax RIAs async http, http push SOA

February 11, 2007 SOA Challenges XML SOAP JSON HTML JMS HTTP Different services Different protocols Different formats Different locations Different APIs Different policies

February 11, 2007 SOA Synergy Bus architecture exposes services for multiple uses Enterprise Service Bus XML SOAP JSON HTML JMS HTTP

February 11, 2007 SOA Synergy Bus architecture exposes services for multiple uses Facilitates event and message flow across systems subject to policies XML SOAP JSON HTML JMS HTTP Enterprise Service Bus

February 11, 2007 SOA Synergy Bus architecture exposes services for multiple uses Facilitates event and message flow across systems subject to policies Enterprise Service Bus TIBCO GI extends SOA to humans… TIBCO General Interface™ XML SOAP JSON HTML JMS HTTP

February 11, 2007 Request / Response Publish / Subscribe, Events & Messages Request/Response vs. Publish/Subscribe

February 11, 2007 Evolution to RIA/SOA brings…

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