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Page 1 of 4  The Ajax wave has led to the emergence of several Ajax frameworks over the past year or so,
each promising to make Ajax development simple and
reliable. So while developers are just about coming to terms with the concept of Ajax, they now encounter the question of which
Ajax framework to use.
Backbase is one of the leaders in the Ajax market, with
specialized Ajax offerings for Java as well as .NET.
In this interview Mark Schiefelbein of Backbase talks about
various
Ajax application development issues like security and compatibility. He
also tells us about the features of Backbase's product as compared to
other
Ajax frameworks.
IndicThreads
>> Hi Mark! Good to have you on IndicThreads. Would you
like to introduce yourself?
Mark
Schiefelbein >>
Thank you for the opportunity to do this interview. My name is Mark
Schiefelbein, and I am the VP Product Development at Backbase. Backbase
develops a comprehensive Ajax development framework geared towards Java
developers. The focus of my role is development of the product roadmap
and management of the development teams.
IndicThreads
>> How do you define an Ajax framework? Why should one be
using an Ajax framework for developing Enterprise Java applications?
Mark
Schiefelbein >>
An Ajax framework helps developers to quickly create highly interactive
web-based user interfaces. Such a framework incorporates rich user
interface components, interaction patterns, server connectivity and
extensive tools for development and debugging. It is not just about
making an asynchronous call from the client to the server, but
everything a developer needs to build an Ajax interface for an
Enterprise Java application.
"It is not just about
making an asynchronous call from the client to the server..."
IndicThreads
>>
The Java edition of Backbase is some 75MBs. That's bigger than many
application servers. If I add Backbase to a Java enterprise
application, what are the things I need to do? Do I just place your JAR
files into my WEB-INF/lib and get going?
 Mark
Schiefelbein >>
Yes, it's really simple. The Backbase Java Edition consists of a
client-side and a server-side module. Both are packaged in a WAR file
that can easily be deployed from Eclipse. The client-side module
contains the XML and JavaScript required for running the Ajax interface
in the browser. The server-side module manages the integration between
the client and Java business and data layers.
"The Backbase Java Edition
consists of a
client-side and a server-side module..."
To provide some clarification on the download size: both the
server-
and the client-side modules are under 1 Mb each, but as a commercial
vendor we are focused on shipping an awful lot of documentation and
examples, which comes in at about 60 Mb. Some redistributed libraries
and development tools make up for the rest.
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