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Page 5 of 5 IndicThreads >> Which Java technologies of today are you particularly excited about? Andrey Grebnev >> I am waiting for appearing Spring 1.3 with WebFlow and implementation of EJB3.0 very excitedly.
"I am excited about Spring 1.3 with WebFlow and EJB3.0..." The WebFlow is the thing which has been waited on open-source market for a long time. I think in complete with SpringIDE we will get the perfect tool to model business processes in web applications. It can really help to separate work of web analysts and coder. As for EJB3.0, many people wait when EJB2.0 (2.1) with its absolutely not flexible EJB-QL will be displaced. It is the main reason why Blandware AtLeap does not use EJB. There is one more thing to be substituted. It is a little bit ?crooked? XDoclet. The Java Community is waiting expansion of Java 5 annotations. It is future. After AtLeap 0.5 release we plan to begin development of version 1.0 based on technologies described above. "Java annotations is the future..."
IndicThreads >> And which technologies do you think are more hype than substance? Andrey Grebnev >> I think the example of such phenomenon can be AJAX. Ajax is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML. Ajax is not technology; it is simple new name for old well-known technologies. In short by event the browser can dynamically download new data into some node of DOM. This way the page may not be reloaded as a whole in order to change some small part of page. This approach is suitable for web applications which may not support old or text browsers and the application may not be indexed by external search engines.
"AJAX is more hype than substance..." The article of Jesse James Garrett touches off the big resonance in community. But technologies are used by Ajax is comparatively old. And the idea is not new too. The approaches of using hidden FRAME or hidden IFRAME in order to dynamically download new data are old as the world is. However this article impulse new open-source projects and new features in the existing projects and it is very well. IndicThreads >> Thanks Andrey. It was good to know more about the Russian IT industry and your work in the Java world.
Andrey Grebnev >> You?re welcome! IndicThreads >> Readers can stay in touch with Andrey by email: andrey dot grebnev at blandware dot com
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Comment by Noname on 2005-06-24 14:38:51
Good to know of what is happening in Russia but the pot shots at India show that he is ignorant of the scene beyond Russia.
A person not so "full of himself" could have represented Russia better and provided more rational comments about outsourcing. |
Comment by Noname on 2005-06-24 21:12:04
Ajax has a lot of substance but the hype is just too much. So Andrey is right, it does look like "Ajax is more hype than substance" |
Comment by Noname on 2005-08-09 16:11:21
Strange how he does not mention AppFuse which AtLeap is based on. Lot of the work on building the framework is AppFuse. Give credit when it is due! |
Comment by Noname on 2005-11-13 13:29:16
I have just checked the opencms site. It does have the multilanguage support (at least now). It seems like those developers had reinvented a wheel again (a bit different of course, no doubt, with spikes coloured in blue :) ). That is a problem with many russians (I am russian myself :) ) - we often put aside well-proven solutions because we think we can do better and it usually doesn't work out. It is something to do with mentality. Well, anyway, i wish AtLeap a success if it is worth it! |
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