In this article, learn to use Dojo and Ajax to develop reusable components that can easily be integrated with core applications. A a step-by-step example shows how to develop a Web application that adds mailing capabilities to an existing blogging application, generates mailing widgets, and handles intricacies of cross domain communication.

SoftDevLinks.com is a new general directory for software developers, testers and managers. If you have a blog, a web site, distribute a tool or work a consulting company related to software development, do not hesitate to add a (free) link in this directory.

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With the Ranorex Studio, Ranorex brings an even greater speed and convenience in developing automated UI tests.

This week Aptana shipped the 2 millionth copy of Aptana Studio! This is a huge milestone for Aptana for which we owe a big thank you to the community -- not just for downloading Studio, but more importantly for helping make Aptana Studio the leading open source IDE in its category through your feedback, ideas, and suggestions (and for reporting bugs when they happen).

NEWTON, MA, June 11, 2008 - Telerik, a leading vendor of developer tools and components for .NET, is excited to announce a Community Technology Preview of RadControls for Silverlight 2, right after Microsoft officially released Silverlight 2 Beta 2 plugin. The suite provides some very advanced features that are not supported by the standard controls and includes six controls that are not available with the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 edition.

Dallas, TX June 9, 2008 -- iTKO LISA, the leading provider of testing, validation and virtualization solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and enterprise software, announced the general availability release of LISA 4.5 at the Gartner AADI (Application Architecture, Development & Integration) summit held in Orlando, FL. LISA 4.5 extends the functionality of the award wining LISA 4 suite, adding service virtualization for load and performance testing, and customer-driven enhancements.

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.

Sean Christmann has released a new benchmark to understand the performance differences between Flex/Flash, Silverlight, and HTML/Javascript….

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- 04 June 2008 -- Software Research, Inc. has announced general availability of major new DOM analysis commands in its Patented eValid™ Website Test & Analysis Suite. eValid has introduced a powerful set of DOM Element Manipulation/Motion commands that provide direct control of test script playback based on the current content of the DOM of a rapidly changing web page. The basic idea of these commands is to relieve web application testers of the need to rebuild test scripts when pages change structure, content, or layout.

Cambridge, Mass. — June 3, 2008 — Curl®, Inc. today announced the general availability of the Curl Run Time Environment (RTE) for Macintosh. The Curl RTE is the engine of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform that executes Curl applications and renders code, content and graphics on client machines.

Cambridge, Mass. — May 28, 2008 — Curl®, Inc. today announced he results from a recent performance benchmark test of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, Version 6.0, and Adobe Flex 3. The test aimed to compare the performance of these two RIA platforms and found the Curl language to outperform ActionScript 3, the programming language of the Adobe Flash Player runtime, by a factor of 8 to 10. This finding is particularly significant for developers seeking highly productive ways to build mission-critical, enterprise-class RIAs that require high performance capabilities.

This update is rather unusual, as it contains a major new feature. Rather than wait until the next release, we decided to release French language support as a patch in order to get it into everyone's hands as soon as possible. If you're one of our French speaking customers please let us know how you like being able to use the program in your language of choice. (Note: To get French language support you'll need to download and run the installer again, as it includes too many changes to be delivered through the automatic update feature.)

DHTMLX announces the latest update of its dhtmlxSuite, a professional Ajax components toolkit for web UI. The major updates concern Grid and Treegrid components and include a large number of new features and improvements, including the ability to load data from JSON and JS-array, smart rendering and paging support for hierarchical data grids. Also a new component, dhtmlxSlider, is introduced.

San Mateo, California, May 19th, 2008. introduces Enterprise Ajax 4.2 for Java, a new Java version of it’s standards-based RIA framework. This new release offers a complete Ajax solution for Java developers, with support for all popular Java frameworks, including Struts, Spring MVC and Java Server Faces (JSF). By extending existing Java frameworks with a strong and standards-based RIA alternative, Backbase enables the Java community to compete successfully with proprietary RIA technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flex.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — May 15, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that the pre-release version of Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software is now available in beta on Adobe Labs with new expressive features for interactive designers and developers to build richer and more immersive Web experiences. Adobe Flash Player 10 beta, code named “Astro,” builds on the capabilities of the world’s most pervasive application runtime with new support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, extensible rich text layout and GPU hardware acceleration — helping to enable a new level of cinematic experiences across multiple browsers and operating systems.