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AJAX, app quality enhancements are readied

08.12.2005
NextApp and Compuware next week are set to boost offerings for application development in the areas of AJAX (Asynchronous Java plus XML) and application quality management, respectively.

For NextApp, the company's EchoStudio2 visual development tool gives Eclipse developers another option for using AJAX on the Eclipse open source tools platform. Part of the Echo2 platform for building Web-based applications, EchoStudio plugs into the Eclipse 3.1 IDE.

"You can develop high-end AJAX applications entirely from within Eclipse," said Tod Liebeck, chief software architect at NextApp.

EchoStudio 2 is set to be available on Monday for US$499. Complementing EchoStudio is Echo2, which is a free, open source framework that lacks the visual tools and Eclipse backing.

The Echo2 platform overall features a component-based and event-driven framework for developing user interfaces. "It works a lot like Swing does from the perspective of a developer using the product," Liebeck said.

Echo2 applications are rendered to Web browsers via AJAX technologies, according to NextApp. The company's AJAX-related announcement follows on the heels of an effort by Genuitec, which is set to offer AJAX development for Eclipse through its MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 4.1 IDE.