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The Zen of jMaki

This presentation was created and presented today at Javapolis. This document also contains many basic examples and some tidbits of history, mindset and motivation for jMaki. If you want to learn more about the details of jMaki from a single document or spread the word of jMaki to your peers feel free to use the slides.

Download "Java and Web 2.0 using jMaki"(PDF) (Open Document Format) (Power Point)

For further information on jMaki visit the jMaki Project Home.

Comments

• Hello Greg, I have subscribed your blog.
  Now I want to use jMaki with Ajax. Special idea is to use Acrobat Reader 8 that support JavaScript, as PDF/XMLHTTP client.
  Really It is report generator systems with JasperReprts files that include JavaScript and SOAP support from Acrobat Reader 8.
  I shall try to use NetBeans 5.5 with your VisualWeb Ajax support modules as external JavaScript Editor. For that I had yet compile
  'liguorien-jseditor-02' project.
  Really what do you think about it?

  Posted by: sarasenbernar on December 22, 2006 at 06:09 AM

• Greg.. is there any advantage to using jMaki widgets over the raw dojo widgets that you get from http://dojotoolkit.org/ when developing PHP apps... you had a blog post somewhere about PHP and jMAki widgets...

  Also, I know the info is out there somewhere... but is there a .complib for jMaki such that I can use jMaki as a pallette in netbeans visual web pack designer? Thanks...

  Posted by: rapunzel on March 14, 2007 at 04:42 PM

• The main advantage is that jMaki provides a unified way of defining widgets and in the case of Dojo we provide default data and writes out the correct script/css includes. We also optimize the page parsing and load the Dojo widgets programatically which can be useful. If you are familiar with the programming model for Dojo and optimizing the widget loading going straight to widgets or other APIs is more than fine. In the case of binding data to widgets jMaki assists a great deal in getting the data formatted from Java / PHP / Phobos to the widgets.

  We are working on Visual Web Pack Designer widgets that wrap existing jMaki widgets. They are being developed at: http://widgets.dev.java.net. These still have not been released but we are making progress.

  Posted by: gmurray71 on March 14, 2007 at 05:45 PM

• Greg, another question for ya: So I am coming from the PHP / MySQL world and the Dreamweaver Code perspective.. Just recently took a job in which I am taking up Java.. Have been using netbeans to get my feet wet and am most impressed with the IDE, features, and community support. The problem I'm having is there are almost too many options available when trying to develop a web app... Visual Web Pack, Java server Faces, Phobos, jMaki, etc... I have done a visual web pack tutorial and like the look and feel of the components...

  Ultimately, my goal is to use ajax to develop web apps from here on out as I think full page refreshes are soon to be a thing of the past... - this rules out Visual Web Pack/server faces as of now.... My question is.. what is my best bet for developing Ajax web apps in NetBeans? Here are the options as I see it:

  1) Phobos
  2) jMaki .nbm
  3) Dynamic Server Faces with jMaki
  4) ICEfaces

  I really like the DB connectivity you get from the V.W.P perspective which I haven't seen in the jMaki / Phobos perspective.... and the ability to drag and drop widgets in V.W.P ...

  - Drowning in options, please help...

  - David

  
  

  Posted by: rapunzel on March 15, 2007 at 02:10 PM

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