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Ajax World East 2008 - Day 1 Report
Posted by arungupta on March 18, 2008 at 07:03 PM | Comments (1)
Ajax World East 2008 started earlier today.
I delievered my "Web 2.0 Application development using jMaki" and the
slides are available here.
There were several demos shown in the talk (using NetBeans and GlassFish)
and they are all accessible at the links mentiond below:
Several other related demos are available here.
Luckily I could deliver without much hassle inspite of having a high
fever and cough! I hope I can hold at least until tomorrow morning when
the big
preso is scheduled @ 11:35am.
Anyway I attended 3 more talks today and took notes to share:
See below for notes from each talk.
The first talk I attended was: Picking
the Right Technology for Enterprise Rich Internet Applications.
I got little late and the session was packed with attendees standing
way outside the room so I joined them.
The session talked about AIR, Silverlight
& JavaFX
as three possible technologies for Enterprise RIA. Per the talk, here
are the basic criteria for RIA tools requirement:
- Seamless deployment on client
- High penetration of runtime
- Web browser independence
- Fast client/server communication protocol
- Robust security
Of course, this session was given in Ajax World so pros/cons of Ajax
were dicussed:
| Pros of Ajax |
Cons of Ajax |
| No deployment
required |
Ajax apps are
browser depdendent |
| 100+ Frameworks |
100+ Frameworks |
| Open Source, no
need to purchase
software license |
Expensive due to
long cycle, skilled
developers demand
top rate |
|
JavaScript is an
interpreted
language, entire source
code can be viewed using "View Source" |
|
Network
communication speed is not
optimizedf for Ajax
requests |
And then basically it talked about the three technologies and their
pros & cons are well captured in the slides.
The second session I attended was Performance
Tuning your Ajax Applications. This was an interesting
session and I learned a few tricks. Interstingly we have implemented
quite a few of these performance enhancements in jMaki already.
Improving the performance of Ajax
applications require tuning the
following parameters:
- Number of requests
- Reduce number of JavaScript files that are loaded. This
is the most important since each request to the
backend adds extra cost. Even when the scripts are cached, the browser
still makes a request (unless Since-Modified header is set correctly).
- Typical approaches are to concatenate the files at dev
time or at runtime based upon request.
- Dev time approaches
- Ant - concat all JS files using <concat>
task
- Dojo - Run Rhino over all provide/requires and then
concatenate
the files
- Command-line
- Run time approaches - Concatenation happens depending
upon the request. Cons are:
- Server-side dependent
- Makes it harder to distribute code
- Server is loaded as concatenation happens on server
(mitigated with caching)
- Works for <15 JS files
- Does not track dependency
- Size of requests
- Remove white spaces and comments (Packer, Dojo,
YCompresser, SafeCompress, ShrinkSafe are some of the tools)
- Shorten the variable names
- Gzip the code
- Semicolon is optional but needed if you remove EOL
(careful when compressing the code)
- Drastically reduces the file size (e.g. Apache XAP
reduced the file size from 330 kb to 70 kb)
- Lots of gzip tools
- Need to put appropriate headers so that browsers
recognize gzipped content
- Coding Style
- Single line "if" and "for" do not need "{ }"
- Combine var declarations into a single var such as var
x=1, y = 2;
- Use JavaScript style object
- Time of requests
- Time of initial code completion
- Minimize the time that is executed @ start up
- Bring the data once the initial page is loaded
- Show images telling users that something is going on
- Distracts user from the time it's taking
- Other tips
- Don't write your own parser - use the native
parsers
- "If" statement optimization
- Use the native facilities like getElementById() or
getElementByTagName()
- Consider different approaches of DOM creation
- Tail Recursion
- Setting the value in innerHTML
- Consider JSON over DOM for object graph traversal - JSON
could be much faster
Similar tips can be used for CSS as well.
My third talk of the day was Performance
Paradigm of a Mashup World.
This talk given by Vice President of Webmetrics and laid
a special emphasis on "Collaborative Monitoring" for performance
measuring any mashup. This process involves not only monitoring your
own application, but also setting up agents that measure performance
with other services being invoked in the mashup, their further partners
and so on. It also talked about a layered approach of using:
- Standard monitoring - HTML page load time, DNS request
processing time, etc.
- Pixel Mapping monitoring - required mainly for GUI
intensive application
- Web services monitoring - Used for partner monitoring
This was further clarified using a 6-step process:
- Know your apps
- Learn where the points are in your ecosystem
- Measure your perspective
- Monitor your APIs
- Collaborate within your organization
- Collaborate with your partners & customers
That's it!
Check out some of the pictures:
The expo hall opens tomorrow and Sun's booth is right between the
ballroom and the main door to expo hall, can't miss us ;)
The complete album is available at:
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