Andre’s Blog

Craig Becker just sent out an announcement about ATF.

The AJAX Toolkit Framework (ATF) provides and extensible framework and exemplary tools for building IDEs for the many different AJAX runtime offerings (Dojo, Zimbra, Rico, etc) in the market. Tools built upon these frameworks will initially include: enhanced JavaScript editing features such as edit-time syntax checking; an embedded Mozilla web browser; an embedded DOM browser; and an embedded JavaScript debugger. An additional and unique aspect of the framework is the Personality Builder function, which assists in the construction of arbitrary AJAX runtime frameworks, thus allowing those runtimes to be used with ATF tools.

The ATF code is available for download.

This is very exciting for us as we’re building better support for J2EE platforms and Eclipse.   I found a link to an overview presentation of ATF Craig put together a while ago via Arthur Ryman.   Godfrey’s  going to be working with  this quite a bit as we role our Nitobi Grid V3.0.  Expect to see the full ATF Personality for our Nitobi AJAX components later this summer.

I think this is great move forward to help developers working with Eclipse and AJAX. 

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