Nexaweb announced that it has established operations in Europe by signing a partnership with Enable-U. Nexaweb's partnership with Enable-U is the latest step in the company's international growth strategy which began with expansion into Japan in 2004 and Korea in 2007.

The original founder and visionary behind Grub, the distributed Web crawler recently re-purchased by Wikia, Kord Campbell currently serves as chief evangelist at Splunk.com. At AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East in New York City in mid-March, Campbell will be giving a session on how the absence of JavaScript support in today's search engine crawlers presents a serious SEO dilemma for Websites generating some or all of their content with JavaScript DOM manipulation.

The recently-released 'Xythos On Demand' is a Software as a Service (SaaS) content management service for smaller businesses and departments of larger organizations. Xythos recognized that rolling out a successful SaaS would involve more than simply repackaging their existing Enterprise Document Management Suite to the Web. They enlisted Catalyst Resources to define and validate the SaaS application design as well as identify AJAX behaviors that would have high impact and solve real world business problems.

Recently named one of Tech's Best Entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek and also nominated for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, Hooman Radfar - Founder & CEO of Clearspring Technologies - is speaking in mid-March a AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East on how widgets are reshaping the Social Web.

Project Zero is an agile development and execution environment which leverages REST and scripting runtimes to speed and simplify development of dynamic Web applications. Project Zero includes a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP with application programming interfaces optimized for producing REST-style services, integration mash-ups and rich Web interfaces. Project Zero is being developed openly using a Community-Driven Commercial Development process at http://www.pro jectzero.org. In this session, the audience will get an overview of the Project Zero Platform and learn how to develop, assemble, and run Project Zero applications.

Consumer applications such as Google Maps have opened the eyes of business users to a new Web experience, but the technology behind Google Maps -- AJAX -- poses significant development and maintenance challenges. Although powerful in the hands of rocket scientists, AJAX has been beyond the grip of average enterprise developers. This session presents techniques and approaches that significantly simplify AJAX development and maintenance. Starting by introducing the declarative and programmatic programming models and different levels of AJAX adoption, the session addresses how to: Develop AJAX applications the right way, Reduce the skill set requirements, Make AJAX scale to large, distributed team-based development projects, Integrate multiple community projects to achieve higher productivity. The session presents code and application examples.

The iPhone is transforming the Web as we know it and compelling every Web designer to consider handheld portable devices. This session covers various aspects of iPhone and iPod Touch development. It will include tips and tricks as well as best practices to follow. Williams also covers how to use an integrated development environment (IDE) for building iPhone and iPod Touch applications and how to use the iUI library to easily build iPhone applications - the free, open source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused Aptana IDE.

As more traditional sites adopt Web 2.0 technologies including AJAX, Web Services, SOA and PHP to perform online transactions one thing is certain--- these new technologies bring security issues and ignoring them could lead to serious breaches. Watchfire will demonstrate and discuss the most common Web 2.0 attack vectors, analyze the specific security issues of AJAX, especially cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and cross-site scripting (CSS), and explain techniques for exploiting and protecting web services including secure coding practices and how to properly secure web applications.

The notion of building 'social applications' has taken the Web by storm. Today it is not only important to understand how to build Web or AJAX applications, but with the advent of the 'Social Graph', AJAX developer's must have a solid understanding of how to build social applications that operate within the context of a social environment. To this end, OpenSocial provides a set of open APIs for building applications that can run on any environment supporting OpenSocial. In this session, I will cover all aspects of building social applications using the OpenSocial APIs. A high level introduction of the social graph is given, followed by a detailed review of OpenSocial's APIs followed by demonstrations of practical examples. At the end of the session I will also review Shindig, which is an open source project that serves as a full server implementation 'in-a-box' for anyone wishing to host OpenSocial applications.

You think your ASP.NET AJAX application is secure, but how do you know? Are you SURE? Would you bet your career on it? Secure application design is 1/3 Architecture, 1/3 Code, and 1/3 Operations. You can't retro-fit a secure architecture. In this Digital Black Belt crash session you'll get a whirlwind tour of how to write secure web applications with ASP.NET AJAX. You can't learn it all in a day, but you can get started with secure development techniques and learn what questions you need to be asking each day in your development process.

AJAX is not about Eye Candy. AJAX is about building functionality that is difficult or impossible with conventional web development technology. Done right your web applications ROCK, but it it's done wrong and your infrastructure pays the price. This session will expose a collection of design and usage patterns that will help you understand ASP.NET AJAX under the covers and design efficient, interactive AJAX Applications using Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Technologies.

Agility comes from releasing pockets of innovation that exists within organizations. To make this happen, the right people in the right places need the right information at the right time. What if I was to tell you that today the technology exists to enable these high performance people to serve themselves with the information they need? They don't need programming skills, scripting skills, database skills - any IT skills - to gather the data they need and to build data marts and online portal applications. It raises the question, do you need SOA? Think I'm crazy? In this session we'll take a look at some case stories that show how some of the world's largest companies are already exploiting code-free composite applications to solve their business priorities.

Ruby on Rails has certainly played a role in delivering Rich Web Applications which take full advantage of AJAX. In this session, delegates will learn how Ruby on Rails empowers developers to create rich interfaces without writing any JavaScript. This talk will: Give an introduction to how Ruby on Rails integrates the Prototype and Script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries, Show how Rails developers write Ruby code which generates JavaScript on the fly and reveal how Ruby encourages best practices by degrading gracefully when a browser has JavaScript disabled.

The Web is continuously democratizing how information is consumed. Today, personal Web use has led to a rapid increase in user sophistication which is naturally reaching the Enterprise. A new mode of information visualization known as a Mashup combined with the collaborative aspects of Web 2.0 is finding success where Composite Applications struggled: cost, speed of development and interactivity. By moving the integration point from the service layer to the presentation layer, driven by the user themselves and controlled by secured processes, Mashups are gaining an Enterprise facet promoting them to be the new generation of Composite Applications.

You've heard about Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups, you've seen the press, now you can see the real thing; announcing 'Outsider', version 3 of our highly acclaimed DreamFace Open Source Ajax Framework for building Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups. Come see how to build personalized and shareable Web 2.0 Mashups by combining internal company data with public data from the web. Be part of the excitement by joining our DreamFace Developer Challenge. Stop by our booth or visit www.datawidget.com.

Quest Diagnostics is the leading provider of diagnostic testing, offering access to its services through its national network of laboratories and patient service centers. Quest's Care360 Web-based lab ordering system is relied upon by tens of thousands of customers throughout the USA. In order to address the demands of customers for better speed and efficiency during the complex ordering process, Quest has now re-engineered the user interface using AJAX techniques. This presentation will focus on why and how AJAX met Quest's demanding business and technical requirements, and will demonstrate how their chosen technology, eXtc Web Developer, allowed the project to be delivered within a very short timeframe, with a small team, and without disrupting their existing service.

Designing a state of the art user interface (UI) in a very visual application that is managing a lot of elements posed significant challenge due to the nature of the application: virtualizing and running entire data centers through a browser. With thousands of objects to coordinate the UI architecture proved as critical as the implementation details. Attendees will get a full case study on building application UI with AJAX - from architecture decisions, tool choice, and design implementation to performance testing procedures for multiple http calls per page refresh; rich client-like user interactions; security testing; and dealing with support of different browser versions. After investigating different approached to the UI, 3Tera came to the conclusion that AJAX is the only technology that allows to build utility computing in a browse. Atendees will hear a highly compelling insight on the process of developing functionally rich front end to a very complex system. The presentation also addresses business and IT concerns, and will educate the audience with real-world examples of how companies are already operating and leveraging utility computing in a browser and benefiting from the AJAX based UI to deliver, provision and scale Web applications with ease.

AJAX is seemingly everywhere. But is everything a nail to be pounded with the AJAX hammer? Some of the fundamental technologies that AJAX is based on - including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - can offer simpler, more elegant solutions that are better suited to certain user experiences. The applicability of rich interactivity is determined by the continuity of page context as it relates to the user's workflow. By understanding what AJAX affords and which user experience characteristics lend themselves to an AJAX implementation, this sessions will help designers and developers to more suitably use AJAX to deliver more engaging user experiences.

Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 have brought IT organizations a set of capabilities to better meet the demands of business users. However, IT needs to be proactive and build processes to enable agility and creativity, and deploy these assets with appropriate enterprise-level control. What level of performance, control, compliance will ensure team success? And how can you reduce costs and development times for better enterprise value? This session will overview Enterprise 2.0 Mashup capabilities from IBM and Sonoa Systems, and elaborate on best practices, using real-world scenarios of how they tackled these issues with customers.

The AJAX hype had left enterprises behind with no adequate solutions for security concerns, cost of development, needed complexities support and off-line option. On-Server AJAX, offers revolutionary solutions to those concerns and needs. The On-Server AJAX paradigm shift allows for the first time, to support deployments of complex AJAX line of business applications in unprecedented simplicity, by-design security, no-limit complexities, dual mode running, web or desktop/off-line from the same code source, migration of legacy to web without rewrite, all by-design and at dramatically reduced costs.

Yahoo! released the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) as a free, open-source JavaScript and CSS library eighteen months ago along with a commitment to the developer community: We'll share with you our best frontend tools, engage with you about how they're built and why, and we'll document them fully. In that short time, YUI has become one of the best-regarded frontend libraries and has been adopted by individuals on their blogs, startups who are going all-in with YUI as the foundation of their frontend architecture, and Fortune 500 companies using YUI as a trusted, tested, long-view toolkit for creating great user-experiences on the Web.

As the Internet continues to evolve, new business and technical opportunities are emerging almost daily. This session will talk in detail about some of them but focus on the concepts of remixability of all types of content. We will discuss in detail the OpenAJAX Gadget Specification which provides an important building block of the mashup ecosytem. We will walk through the whole ecosystem from content creation to the cataloging of content from many sources to the mashing up of that content.

Without a doubt, Social Computing is the preeminent phenomenon rising on the second wave of the web, and the iPhone will become one of the dominant clients for Social Computing in the mobile space. Come to this talk and find out how ICEfaces delivers the goods today for development of web-based social computing applications. The open source ICEfaces project pioneered web-based real time collaboration, an essential capability for truly interactive Social Computing, and its server-centric architecture is well-suited to resource-constrained devices such as the iPhone. During this session you will see several live demos of collaborative applications running on the iPhone. You will gain an understanding of ICEfaces' server-centric architecture and understand how it is a natural way to deliver high-powered, but light-weight AJAX capabilities to your mobile applications. You will also learn how to leverage AJAX Push to make your applications truly collaborative, and prepare yourself to deliver on the promises of social computing.

Social computing is no longer a casual activity: corporations are increasingly leveraging wikis and blogs to enhance collaboration inside and outside the firewall. Next-generation social computing demands spontaneous and responsive collaboration. Are AJAX technologies up to the task? This presentation explores the challenges, practices, and futures for AJAX collaboration techniques. Beginning with a review of existing open source AJAX technologies, covering deployment infrastructure, application development, and supporting libraries, we will continue with several examples of what is possible today. This session will give you an understanding of where social computing can go and what AJAX technologies will take it there.

Since the iPhone was first released, early adopters haven't stopped talking about what they think of the device. While the free promotion can be a great marketing tool for wireless carriers, it can be crippling if users have issues with session and network quality. Verizon's Voyager and Nokia's N810 must isolate and prioritize network problems to ensure that customer issues are addressed as quickly as possible. Ensuring that these early adopters have a positive experience is essential for having any chance at the viral adoption the iPhone experienced, along with a low customer churn rate.

Dietrich Kappe, a Web pioneer who published one of the first 100 public web sites and launched one of the first Java Servlet-based web applications, will be speaking in mid-March at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East in New York City, the 5th International AJAXWorld. Kappe, who publishes the Agile AJAX blog, will be giving a session on 'Transforming J2EE applications into Web 2.0 using GWT.'

As the momentum for the new class of SOA middleware continues to grow, developers are looking for simple yet scalable solutions that can integrate disparate data across a variety of on-premises, on-demand and Web 2.0 information sources and applications. With many of such data integration problems being relatively small in scope, companies can't justify bringing expensive middleware to solve small problems. Some of the projects are built using work-arounds and custom coding. The result is prone to operational risk, high maintenance costs, and is inevitably inefficient. After this session you will: Understand the impact of data mashups on developer community, Find out how to select mashup technologies and tools for your next data integration project, Discover tips, best practices, and strategies for leveraging these tools and solving most common challenges.

Enterprises have been making significant investments to create SOA infrastructures that produce SOA and Web services. The focus is now shifting to 'putting a face on SOA' by enabling distributed business units to easily consume these services and thus accelerate SOA benefits and ROI. New AJAX-based technologies enable enterprises to fully realize their SOA vision through Rich Enterprise Applications (REAs) deployed at the forefront of business. The presentation will focus on the following to assist the audience in negotiating a SOA:AJAX initiative: AJAX and your SOA Initiative, Deploying New World Enterprise Integration, SOA Best Practices for Implementation in your Environment and Extending SOA Pilots to the Enterprise.

The enterprise Web ecosystem is becoming increasingly complex, comprised of multiple disparate partner sites, data sources and Web services - all of which make up the new mashup world. And while the method of delivering enterprise applications may be changing, the users expectations for quality, dependability, and uptime have not. In this presentation, I will define the performance paradigm facing enterprise mashups, while answering the following questions: How does an enterprise validate a positive user experience when they don't control all the pieces in the service delivery chain? If there are problems somewhere in the chain, how are performance issues isolated and diagnosed? What are the important data points that should be monitored and how can that data be shared and best utilized across a web ecosystem?

With millions of iPhones sold in recent months, enterprises are challenged with how to manage the influx of these personal devices coming 'in the back door' without compromising security policies. One IDC analyst states, 'Bringing secure enterprise wireless email to the Apple iPhone brings it one step closer to being able to be used as a trusted enterprise device.' This session will advocate a proactive approach to adding iPhone as a supported device, and illustrate how doing so provides enterprise support for iPhones and reduces security concerns, while still providing a rich user experience utilizing the native iPhone mail application.

jMaki has evolved from giving developers the ability to sprinkle AJAX into their web apps easily to be a full AJAX framework. jMaki has evolved once again with the jMaki Webtop which lets you quickly create mashups using jMaki widgets that can interact with each other. The jMaki Webtop is based on a container widget that lets you drag and drop your favorite widgets and easily map them to your services or have them work together without having to write an web pages. The jMaki Webtop also has a management service for configuring deploy widgets and mapping those widgets to your services. Also included is the ability to manage users and share a jMaki Webtop with everyone.

Learn about the best kept secret in AJAX application development! This session will help you save weeks of time as you learn how to create AJAX solutions that rival desktop type GUIs with astounding ease using the TIBCO General Interface professional AJAX toolkit. Understand what makes press, analysts, IT managers, and developers alike attest to the power and development ease that this mature AJAX toolkit provides.

As much as we like the term real-time, it has over time become too saturated to lend itself any use to Web 2.0 technologies that really mean it. Question is; what do we actual mean with 'real-time'? In what context is it used? And what impact will it have on your business? This session will clarify the definition of real-time in the context of Web 2.0 and what impact new emerging real-time Web 2.0 technologies will have on your enterprise over the next coming years.

In this session, Chris, lead developer on the RDT (Ruby Development Tools) Project, will review all of the major features of the Aptana IDE - a free, open source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building AJAX applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code. With nearly 1 million downloads to date, the Aptana IDE is fast becoming the standard way AJAX developers build their Web 2.0 applications.

The Apache Trinidad project offers you more than 100 AJAX-building components for an AJAX-integration, that is almost for free. It also provides you a client- and server-side AJAX-API, for leveraging 3rd party libraries such as Dojo or Yahoo UI. Facelets lowers the pain, when creating view-templates or custom JSF components. This talk shows the combination of these frameworks, for creating a rich JSF application. You learn how to build cool Mashups and how to extract them to reusable components. The session also demonstrates an easy way of creating custom JSF components, by using popular 3rd party JavaScript libraries.

As Web 2.0 drives 'atomization' of the Web, APIs become critical to distribution and revenue. But looking beyond free API distribution - how do you turn your APIs (features) for new channels, products, and revenue? How do you ink 'for pay' API, priority partner, and OEM syndication deals without killing your development team with repeated 'one off' coding of business and operational terms for each new non-tail API use? Web service virtualization provides a separate layer that isolates business and operational rules, enabling you to quickly configure virtual Web services that proxy your API to enforce business and operational policies.

Performance measurement and analysis in the public sector is in the infancy stages, but already AJAX can be leveraged to bring easy to use, powerful Web-based user interfaces into this space. We will examine what the challenges are to measuring performance and then demo how AJAX tackles these issues as well as show some clever uses of the technology.

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .Net or experiment with such newcomers as AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, or JavaFX. While Internet brings a lot of noise where 'it's cool' is the most popular definition, this presentation is an overview of what's out there on the enterprise RIA market. We'll talk about pros and cons of using various techniques and technologies for development of the front end for complex distributed systems.

Jon Ferraiolo will introduce the industry consortium that drives AJAX standards and interoperability: the OpenAjax Alliance. He will provide an overview of recent accomplishments, particularly OpenAjax Hub 1.0, but focus on new initiatives. Among the new initiatives are two mashup-related efforts: OpenAjax Hub 1.1, which is adding secure mashup and Comet support (extending existing features in Hub 1.0, which focused on simple publish/subscribe APIs), and the Gadgets Task Force, which is working on standards and open source around 'widgets' (i.e., mashup components). Ferraiolo will also review other OpenAjax initiatives, including IDE standards, AJAX security, Mobile AJAX and runtime advocacy.

The Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define the Web were last revised in 1999. Since then, the Web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress since then, due to the cleverness of the Web development community and the surprising expressive power of JavaScript, but we are at the limits. The Web is no longer a driver of innovation. It is now a serious impediment. The Web is overly complex. It is visually underpowered. It is hopelessly insecure. It is now under competitive assault by new proprietary platforms that hope to capture the next generation of applications. Can a system as large and as open as the Web heal and adapt itself to the challenges of the 21st Century?