Echo2

I/we are considering replacing the JSON-RPC-Java portion of our Ajax presentation with Echo2. To sum up what Echo2 is attempting: it is a component based web framework that would allow developers to create web applications (utilizing Ajax) with relatively little knowledge of html and javascript.

The original Echo attempted a very similar goal but leveraged iFrames to accomplish it. The new version leverages the XmlHttpRequest object; yet another example of the power of this approach.

Probably the most intriguing part of this would be that the final solution will contain lots of javascript and html. It will be interesting to see how this all works out. I am expecting to find that anything more than a very basic implementation will require javascript and html knowledge, as you expand on what they are providing, but we'll see.

Anyway, I am in the very early stages of looking at it but am hoping to make some progress pretty quickly. I'd like to have a couple of slides ready for the Fox Valley JUG presentation coming up in a couple of weeks, and expand that out to 20-30 minutes for the NFJS conference.