Servoy 3.5 adds enhanced AJAX capabilities
updated 04:05 pm EDT, Fri July 27, 2007
Servoy 3.5 released
Servoy 3.5 is a new release of the $290 cross-platform development and deployment environment used to create and deploy applications. The primary purpose of the tool is to build front-ends to databases quickly, without having to write any SQL code, even when combining data from multiple sources. The tool is based on industry standards, and consists of GUI designer, is fully event-driven and scriptable through JavaScript. The new release has enhanced AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) features; data broadcasting between LAN and browser, and browser- to-browser); HTTP tunneling; multiple modal/non-modal windows; as well as new table and column events. The Servoy the Web Client actually runs on the server and only the presentation layer runs in the web browser. With the AJAX functionality, Servoy adds a light-weight JavaScript function that detects events of the users and communicates this information with the server.
