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November 18, 2008

SmartGWT is out

Yes it’s true! SmartGWT was officially released yesterday with an announcement on Sanjiv’s blog. The SmartGWT project is hosted on Google Code – go there for downloads, JavaDocs and an online showcase featuring about 250 samples. I’d like to thank Sanjiv for all his hard work in getting this release out so much sooner than anyone expected was possible. As...

SmartGWT

November 12, 2008

7.0 Beta is out; SmartGWT right around the corner

At long last, the fabled 7.0 is available for everyone to try out. Use the download links below. http://smartclient.com/releases/SmartClient_70beta_LGPL.zip http://smartclient.com/releases/SmartClient_70beta_Evaluation.zip (30 day eval) Please post any issues with 7.0 in the SmartClient Forums as usual, but please be very sure to mention that you are reporting an issue with 7.0 beta (ideally, put it in the subject line). The list...

Uncategorized

October 2, 2008

Best practices: loading DataSources dynamically

Just came across this great blog post from SmartClient user David Johnson about a technique for loading required DataSources dynamically as part of a view. “So how do we provide DataSources customized for the user? Well, we could easily pull the metadata from the database, merge in the user’s security and then write the DataSources into the web page (we...

Uncategorized

September 21, 2008

Browser JavaScript performance leapfrogged again

The race for the JavaScript performance crown is heating up to an almost absurd extent. Back In June, Apple’s Safari browser was updated with their “SquirrelFish” JavaScript interpreter, providing a huge boost to JavaScript performance that actually put Safari ahead of Tamarin, the JavaScript engine used in Adobe Flex. Then, just weeks ago Google released Chrome, including a JavaScript engine,...

performance

August 18, 2008

Announcing SmartGWT

Yes, it’s true! A project has been underway for some time to create a GWT (Google Web Toolkit) wrapper for SmartClient. The project, dubbed SmartGWT, will be made available under the same LPGLv3 license as SmartClient LGPL, with commercial licensing available as well. It will be hosted on Google Code with public SVN access, and external committers will be welcome...

Roadmap/Tools

July 15, 2008

The Ajax Renaissance

In his blog “The Clever Monkey“, Curl’s VP of Developer Relations, Richard Monson-Haefel, writes about a new feature coming in IE8, stunningly, citing new Ajax features in IE as signs of the “End of Ajax”. Richard does not seem to be awareÃ‚Â that the XMLHttpRequest API – sometimes called the “X” in Ajax – was a Microsoft proprietary extension first. It...

Industry

July 1, 2008

SmartClient 7.0

This is a sneak peak at some of the features planned for SmartClient 7.0. FilterBuilder / AdvancedCriteria The FilterBuilder is a form that allows the user to input advanced search criteria, including operators on field values such as “less than”, and sub-clauses using “AND” and “OR” operators. See screenshot below: As you can guess, the green plus icons allow the...

Roadmap

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SmartGWT is out

7.0 Beta is out; SmartGWT right around the corner

Best practices: loading DataSources dynamically

Browser JavaScript performance leapfrogged again

Announcing SmartGWT

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SmartClient 7.0

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