Microsoft And Eclipse: A Showdown for Ajax Leadership Charles Babcock, InternetWeek
Microsoft and backers of Eclipse, the open source programmer's workbench, have stepped up efforts to create Ajax-friendly tools for building interactive Web applications. Unlike the mature technical standards for server-side software, tools and technologies for Web development are changing rapidly. Ajax is the symbol of emerging Web development, combining JavaScript and XML so that, instead of requiring round trips to a server each time a user wants new data, a browser's cache pre- fetches the information that might appear next. This leads to much faster interaction, with Google Maps among the star examples. Eclipse leaders
-- which include IBM, Intel, Red Hat, and SAP -- last week laid out the expansion of the developer's workbench into a platform that can compete with Microsoft in the enterprise. Microsoft last week released an updated test version of its own Ajax development tool, called Atlas, that creates standard JavaScript on an application's client side.
Microsoft also has written server-side extensions to JavaScript to improve the way Ajax apps work on Windows computers, so software written in Atlas can interact with elements of Windows Vista. But Microsoft won't ship Atlas until it releases the next version of Visual Studio, called Orcas, and that's still several years away. Meanwhile, Eclipse is capitalizing now on the proliferation of Ajax toolkits. Microsoft has the advantage of being able to tightly integrate its tools with Windows, its SQL Server database, and other software. Indeed, IBM donated Eclipse's core workbench technology as open source code because it wants Java tools to have a level of integration similar to Microsoft's.
InternetWeek | Ajax Development
Microsoft and backers of Eclipse, the open source programmer's workbench, have stepped up efforts to create Ajax-friendly tools for building interactive Web applications. Unlike the mature technical standards for server-side software, tools and technologies for Web development are changing rapidly. Ajax is the symbol of emerging Web development, combining JavaScript and XML so that, instead of requiring round trips to a server each time a user wants new data, a browser's cache pre- fetches the information that might appear next. This leads to much faster interaction, with Google Maps among the star examples. Eclipse leaders
-- which include IBM, Intel, Red Hat, and SAP -- last week laid out the expansion of the developer's workbench into a platform that can compete with Microsoft in the enterprise. Microsoft last week released an updated test version of its own Ajax development tool, called Atlas, that creates standard JavaScript on an application's client side.
Microsoft also has written server-side extensions to JavaScript to improve the way Ajax apps work on Windows computers, so software written in Atlas can interact with elements of Windows Vista. But Microsoft won't ship Atlas until it releases the next version of Visual Studio, called Orcas, and that's still several years away. Meanwhile, Eclipse is capitalizing now on the proliferation of Ajax toolkits. Microsoft has the advantage of being able to tightly integrate its tools with Windows, its SQL Server database, and other software. Indeed, IBM donated Eclipse's core workbench technology as open source code because it wants Java tools to have a level of integration similar to Microsoft's.
InternetWeek | Ajax Development
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