June 5th, 2008
New Advisor Rob Bearden is Sixth Person With JBoss Ties to Join Rich Internet Application Upstart
ATLANTA―June 4, 2008―Rob Bearden, the former chief operating officer of JBoss, has joined the advisory board of Appcelerator, strengthening the company’s aggressive charge into the rich Internet application market. Bearden is the sixth person with JBoss ties to join Appcelerator, whose platform helps companies quickly build Web-based applications with more functionality and less code. read more »
April 14th, 2008
XAware Ecosystem offers integrated open source SOA solutions
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (MySQL Conference & Expo 2008) —April 14, 2008— XAware, Inc. today announced that Active Endpoints and Appcelerator have joined the XAware Ecosystem. Together, these three technology leaders offer customers a unique combination of open, standards-based systems that provide broad, enterprise-class solutions. XAware, Active Endpoints and Appcelerator will provide demonstrations of their integrated solutions in booth 301 at the MySQL Conference & Expo this week in Santa Clara. read more »
April 11th, 2008
Open source provider gives software developers a fast way to create sophisticated rich Internet applications and then deploy directly to new Google platform
ATLANTA―April 11, 2008―Appcelerator, the leader in open source rich Internet applications (RIA), today announced that it has updated its platform to allow applications built using Appcelerator to be seamlessly deployed to the free new Google App Engine. Used together, the offerings give developers a fast route to developing, deploying, managing and scaling their applications. read more »
March 19th, 2008
Appcelerator Developer Network Welcomes Users of Different Programming Languages and Creates the First Cross-Language RIA Widget Exchange
NEW YORK (AJAXWorld Conference & Expo) — March 19, 2008 Appcelerator, the leader in open source rich Internet application (RIA) development, today announced the launch of its new open source developer community, the Appcelerator Developer Network. “The response to our revamped developer community has been overwhelming,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “In just a few days, over 500 new community members have signed on to the developer network, started making significant contributions and engaging in active collaboration around the development of rich Internet applications with Appcelerator. We expect this excitement to build through our outreach to attendees of AJAXWorld East this week.” read more »
March 19th, 2008
Open source Eclipse-based development environment and updated platform enable rapid development of service-oriented rich Internet applications
NEW YORK (AJAXWorld Conference & Expo)―March 19, 2008―Appcelerator, the leader in open source rich Internet application development, today announced substantial updates to its software that furthers its ability to bring together RIA and service-oriented architecture (SOA). The company has created Appcelerator RIA Developer, an Eclipse plug-in that makes it easy for developers who prefer an Eclipse environment to create Appcelerator projects. It is also releasing an updated version of the Appcelerator SDK platform that includes powerful new features that streamline the use of third-party software with Appcelerator to quickly create RIAs. read more »
In the world of rich Internet applications (RIAs), there is no shortage of technology choices to compose a user interface. Kevin Winnery explores which tools give you the most bang for your RIA buck in his latest JDJ post here.
Application Development Trends contributor Becky Nagel recently wrote about Appcelerator’s integration of the Google App Engine into its open source RIA development platform. Read her article, “Appcelerator Enables Google App Engine Portability” here.
The time for server-side Model-View-Controller Web frameworks has expired. While the majority of deployed Web applications are based on some flavor of MVC, those applications represent the past, not the future. Read Nolan Wright’s guest view column “MVC is Dead” in SD Times here.
Ajaxian has just posted a a story about Appcelerator’s new support for Google App Engine. To read Dion Almaer’s post, click here.