Nitobi Uprades Ajax Component Suite with Safari Support, Dreamweaver Extensions and New Grid Component

Nitobi Inc. enhances its Ajax component suite today with the release of Complete UI Q2 2008. Today's release strengthens the popular Ajax development tools with Safari 3 support, a new hierarchical grid component, a variety of new themes, and multi-component Dreamweaver extensions that make use-cases like master-detail grids even easier. Complete UI is available for download at www.nitobi.com/download/.

Complete UI is a suite of Ajax-powered components that significantly improve user experiences for any web application. Complete UI is designed to help developers build great user experiences on the web. Powered by Ajax, Complete UI off-the-shelf components save developers the time and effort of building their own UI interactions from scratch. Nitobi components have been popular with Ajax developers since Nitobi Grid and ComboBox first launched in 2005. Complete UI solves web app usability challenges with easy user interactions powered by Ajax. In addition to delivering web apps with exceptional UI design, Nitobi's off-the-shelf components save developers hundreds of hours of development time.

"Adding good usability to web applications is difficult, even for senior developers. With Complete UI, we've packaged a suite of out-of-the-box, easy to implement Ajax components that immediately make sites more usable, even sites built by beginner developers," said Andre Charland, Nitobi CEO.

"Nitobi Grid allowed our development team to immediately configure and utilize a mature, production-ready component. Any attempt to custom build a grid component would likely result in a lengthy development process," said David Huffman, Senior Developer at Corporate Technology Partners.

• Grid -- A cross-browser spreadsheet with Excel 'copy/paste', LiveScrolling, and more.
• TreeGrid - A new, hierarchical grid component.
• ComboBox -- A drop-down menu with autocomplete functionality, similar to Google Suggest.
• Calendar -- A high-performance calendar picker that can be used with Nitobi Grid or in standalone web applications.
• Callout -- A rich, skinnable tool-tip that prompts users with real-time feedback and helpful instructions as they navigate through an application.
• Fisheye -- A tool bar menu featuring fisheye magnification, similar to Apple OS X tool bar.
• Spotlight -- A tool for creating stylish guided tours of websites and applications.
• Tabstrip -- Folder tabs for navigating to different sections of a web application via Ajax or iFrame requests.
• Tree -- A hierarchical data view, similar to the folder view in Windows Explorer.
• Ajax Toolkit -- A library of fully-documented tools used in Nitobi components that can be re-used in your own applications, or to build your own components.

The Complete UI suite is platform-agnostic and works with a variety of development frameworks, including Java, PHP, ASP.Net, Classic ASP and Coldfusion. Pricing for Complete UI starts at US $429. For more information on Complete UI, visit www.nitobi.com. Download a 30-day free trial at www.nitobi.com/download/.

About Nitobi Inc.
Nitobi Inc. (www.nitobi.com) has been creating web-based software components and enterprise solutions for customers around the globe since 1997. Nitobi's customers include Bank of America, Time Warner, KBR and NASA. Nitobi is an active member of the OpenAJAX Alliance and has recently authored a book on Ajax entitled, Enterprise Ajax published by Prentice Hall PTR.

Source: PRWeb

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Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials Book Announced

Packt is pleased to announce details of a new book for ASP.NET developers, which will help them to understand how Microsoft AJAX will impact on the way they develop web applications and help them to make the transition to better, more responsive applications as easily as possible.

With ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as ATLAS), developers can quickly create rich and responsive web pages with efficient server communication by simply adding a few server controls to their pages. Because ASP.NET AJAX is integrated with ASP.NET, developers have full access to the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 application services and the entire .NET Framework.

Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials is the most practical and efficient resource a reader can get to enter the exciting world of AJAX in ASP.NET. This book is the first step to creating faster, lighter, and richer web applications by using the Microsoft AJAX technologies to their full potential.

Written by experienced authors Cristian Darie and Bogdan Brinzarea, the main goal of this book is to get users comfortable with the Microsoft AJAX Library, a huge set of functions that can be used for developing powerful client-side functionality. To help aid efficiency in working with this library, Darie and Brinzarea walk through this new environment, and help users adapt to it with a detailed exploration of its object-oriented programming model. To compliment these new found skills, and to help users tackle their own projects, a comprehensive guide to the classes used in the book is included, providing an invaluable reference that can be referenced again and again.

For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/ajax-csharp-essentials/book

AjaxPDF Introduces a Whole New Way to Display PDFs

AjaxPDF enables a ground-breaking new way of viewing, navigating, printing, filling and saving PDFs. AjaxPDF is an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Control that presents Portable Document Format (PDF) documents inline within a Web page. The portable document format (PDF) is the standard in high-fidelity documents and forms, however, PDFs are often criticized as slow, disconnected (yet frequently essential) parts of hundreds of thousands of Web sites. With AjaxPDF, PDFs can now be interactive, integrated features of any Web site.

AjaxPDF improves and then extends the way users interact with PDFs - opening the door for more engaging PDF-based Web applications and ensuring the site's design branding and navigation controls are always available.

Users need only the free Adobe Reader (v7.0.9 or later) - no additional software is required. AjaxPDF's functionality degrades gracefully for user whose systems don't meet the minimum system requirements.

AjaxPDF is a Web component used with Visual Studio 2005 or Microsoft's new free Express editions and served via ASP.NET 2.0. AjaxPDF consists of 5 Web Controls - the presentation control, plus button, drop-down, link, separator and textbox toolbar Web controls. You may also use the many third-party or standard Visual Studio Web controls as toolbar items.

Much of AjaxPDF's functionality can be set declaratively, requiring no or very little code. Alternatively, developers can make use of the rich client and server-side APIs to customize and extend AjaxPDF using JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and any of the supported .Net languages.

Key capabilities include:

• Integrated, inline presentation of PDFs within a Web page that can be completely customized - including the appearance of the PDF display area, toolbar and toolbar items.
• Increased usability of PDFs with pre-built or customizable controls for common navigation, form saving or submitting, zooming, printing and much more. Each control can be used immediately "out-of-the-box", customized, or extended.
• Enable users to fill, submit, save and send PDF forms. No coding or modifications to the PDFs required.
• Easy population of PDF forms using ASP.NET databases, collections and XML files.
• Dynamic PDF creation or on-the-fly manipulation of existing PDFs.
• Easy-to-use, familiar dialog boxes for configuring the PDF's properties, security and other options.

AjaxPDF includes a sample ASP.NET 2.0 Web site with nearly 20 functional, documented examples of AjaxPDF including form population from files and databases, dynamic loading of PDFs, client and server-side event management and creating and displaying PDFs dynamically.

AjaxPDF introductory price is $99 until May 1st when the price will be $149. A fully-functional trial version is available from the Indigo Eight Software Web site.

About Indigo Eight Software
Indigo Eight Software - http://www.indigoeightsoftware.com - develops wildly innovative, cost-effective PDF solutions. The company has grown out of more than 15 years of experience in developing software and solutions for a wide range of customers. Indigo Eight Software is located in Cumberland, RI.

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MB Technologies' InfiView Reshapes Ajax Industry with 1st Ajax Development Platform for Graphical Web Applications

AJAXWORLD, New York, NY -- MB Technologies(TM) announced today the release of InfiView, the first development platform for creating interactive and dynamic graphical Ajax applications. InfiView advances the move toward web-based software by enabling developers to build infinite-sized Web 2.0 mind maps, network topologies, organization charts, LDAP tools and technical diagrams.

InfiView uses Ajax technology and its own unique dynamic memory management to enable developers to systematically create graphical web applications using any amount of data (from very small all the way to infinite). With InfiView-built web-applications, end-users seamlessly interact (pan, zoom, right-click for actions…) with all types of graphical data - such as network topologies, DNA sequences or genealogy charts - oblivious to the vast amounts of data available.

MB Technologies established its industry leadership with its flagship framework, Bindows, recently featured on the cover of InfoWorld as one of the leading Ajax platforms for large enterprise web applications. 100% built in Bindows, InfiView is built on top of the Bindows framework which is back-end/server agnostic, and provides best-in-industry support for section-508 accessibility compliance, internationalization and localization.

"I'm very impressed with InfiView," said Alexander Tkachman, chief operating officer at JetBrains, an award winning international software solutions developer. "It looks like a very smart platform based on really cool technology. Now Ajax no longer lacks interactive diagramming."

"People need to see data in the form of charts and diagrams in order to understand it," said Yoram Meriaz, CEO at MB Technologies. "Up until now, there has not been a systematic solution for zero footprint diagramming. MB Technologies solved this problem by identifying shared mathematical characteristics behind each of these elements. InfiView is the framework that we built on top of this foundation to enable developers to expedite time to market with infinitely scalable graphical applications."

For more information about InfiView, please visit MB Technologies' booth at AjaxWorld, contact Ran Meriaz at 678.267.3940, or visit www.infiview.com

About MB Technologies
In 2002, MB Technologies developed the Bindows Ajax framework to provide the United States Air Force mission-critical, zero-footprint applications based on an approach to programming that was later termed Ajax. Bindows now leads the market as the most mature, proven and complete Ajax framework for building zero-footprint enterprise web applications that can have a true Windows look-and-feel. Recently released, InfiView is the first development platform for creating interactive and dynamic graphical Ajax applications. MB Technologies is headquartered in Warner Robins, Georgia, USA with its main development center in Goteborg, Sweden. For more information, please visit Bindows at www.bindows.net and InfiView at www.infiview.com.

MB Technologies, Bindows and InfiView are registered trademarks of MB Technologies, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.

Source: PRWeb

Parasoft Corporation Launches AJAX Testing Solution

Monrovia, CA -- Parasoft Corporation provides software development organizations an automated infrastructure to control and improve the process of developing business applications. Parasoft announced today the availability of Parasoft WebKing 6.0, an automated Web testing suite that provides comprehensive testing and analysis of Web sites and Web applications to ensure they meet the reliability, security, and performance goals necessary to support business requirements effectively.

"Parasoft WebKing 6.0 now allows us to successfully capture interaction with our AJAX components automatically", stated Greg Hasson, Software QA Lead for Networkcar." This significantly improves the ability to exercise all aspects of our AJAX applications, which we couldn't do before."

Parasoft WebKing 6.0 determines where errors are introduced in complex AJAX/RIA applications, such as Google Maps, through a divide and conquer approach. Parasoft WebKing now determines if your errors are a result of problems introduced on the client or server side by generating noiseless reusable test cases. This improves productivity by eliminating the pain of rewriting scripts as Web applications evolve.

"I was pleasantly surprised at how gentle the learning curve for Parasoft WebKing 6.0 is compared to other competing products", stated Paul Oakes, Principle QA Engineer for AOL. "I'm definitely looking forward to using Parasoft WebKing 6.0."

Parasoft Webking 6.0
JavaScript is commonly difficult to debug, yet crucial in the creation of AJAX applications. As Parasoft WebKing 6.0 automatically detects errors that are often not exposed until runtime, users can now find and correct issues at an earlier stage in the software development lifecycle. Parasoft WebKing 6.0 also prevents flaws from reaching the code with policy creation and enforcement for corporate governance and solution consistency.

In addition, Parasoft WebKing 6.0 generates JUnit tests that use an AJAX-enabled library. This helps to facilitate collaboration between development and QA in short or nonexistent release cycles, significantly reducing the rework loop.

"Web application testing is difficult to automate. Teams often create automated test suites, but due to too many false positives they are eventually abandoned," stated Wayne Ariola, VP of Strategy for Parasoft Corporation. "Parasoft WebKing 6.0 facilitates creation of automated test suites that are much more reliable and dependable".

For a live demonstration of Parasoft Solutions, please visit us at AJAX World, March 19-21. Find Parasoft at the Palm area in the Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY or call to arrange a personal demonstration at your company.

To learn more about Parasoft WebKing, please visit: www.parasoft.com/webking

Availability
Parasoft WebKing 6.0 is available for Windows, Linux, and Solaris.

About Parasoft
For 20 years Parasoft has investigated how and why software errors are generated. Our solutions automatically prevent and eliminate errors by addressing their root causes. Whether you are delivering Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), developing mission-critical software applications or supporting the evolution of legacy systems, draw on our expertise and award-winning products to increase your productivity and the quality of your applications. www.parasoft.com or (888) 305-0041.

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Nitobi Releases 'Complete UI', an Enterprise Ajax Component Suite

Vancouver, BC -- Today, Nitobi Inc. releases the first version of Complete UI, a suite of sophisticated Ajax user-interface components for enterprise web applications. Drawing on the success of its Grid and ComboBox components, Nitobi introduces several off-the-shelf components in this enterprise suite not available anywhere else on the market. The Complete UI suite includes Grid, ComboBox, Callout, Fisheye, Tabstrip, Tree, and Nitobi's Ajax Toolkit.

Nitobi's primary focus is enabling developers to build great user experiences on the web. Complete UI cross-platform components help solve web application usability challenges via rich feedback using animation, skinned dialogues, and client-side, Ajax-driven interactivity. By purchasing Nitobi's easy to implement, off-the-shelf Ajax components, developers can save hundreds of hours of development time, and build web applications that exceed expectations.

"We truly believe developers want to build usable, intuitive software, not just get the job done. We pick up where open source frameworks like Prototype and Dojo leave off. Our off-the-shelf, cross platform components make building web applications easier, particularly in the enterprise where usability and productivity is key," said Nitobi co-founder Andre Charland.

Nitobi's Complete UI suite is made up of the follow Ajax components:

• Callout -- A rich, skinnable tool-tip that prompts users with real-time feedback and helpful instructions as they navigate through an application.
• Tabstrip -- Folder tabs for navigation to different sections of a web application via Ajax or iFrame requests.
• Tree -- A hierarchical data view, similar to the folder view in Windows Explorer.
• Grid -- A cross-browser spreadsheet with Excel 'copy/paste', LiveScrolling, and more.
• ComboBox -- A drop-down menu with autocomplete functionality, similar to Google Suggest.
• Fisheye -- A tool bar menu featuring fisheye magnification, similar to Apple OS X tool bar.
• Ajax Toolkit -- A library of fully documented tools used in Nitobi components that can be re-used in your own applications, or to build your own components.

Grid and ComboBox are Nitobi's flagship products with more than 3000 users worldwide, including NASA, Bank of America and Fidelity.

"I've always been impressed with the degree of performance and efficiency within the Nitobi codebase. I look forward to using the new components and being able to write my own within the new framework," said Christian van Eeden, Application Specialist at international logistics firm Schenker.

The Complete UI suite is platform agnostic and works with a variety of development frameworks including Java, PHP, ASP.Net, Classic ASP and Coldfusion MX. Pricing for Complete UI starts at US $429. For more information on Complete UI, visit http://www.nitobi.com/products/completeui/. Download free trial components at http://www.nitobi.com/download/.

About Nitobi Inc.
Nitobi Inc. has been creating web-based software components and enterprise solutions for customers around the globe since 1997. Nitobi's customers include Bank of America, Time Warner, KBR and NASA. Nitobi is an active member of the OpenAJAX Alliance and has recently completed a book on Ajax titled, "Enterprise Ajax" that will be published in 2007 by Prentice Hall PTR. www.nitobi.com

Source: PRWeb