Eclipse as a Web 2.0 Application - Position Paper (2006)

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If todays Web 2.0 application are being discussed, the term Web 2.0 is often used in conjunction with AJAX, Google Maps or other concrete solutions. On the other hand in general Web 2.0 means to leave the existing way of HTML, to achieve Rich Clients with the look & feel of locally installed programs, which are part of a client/server system. Let's go whole hog . With this motto in mind Eclipse can directly be used to establish a Client/Serversystem for Surf & Work. Some of such Web 2.0 applications are based on the paradigma, that the existing infrastructure should not be changed. To accomplish this, these applications use standard web browsers together with their capabilities to process HTML pages with possible embedded Java Script code. Though this has an advantage; this approach has as well weighty disadvantages: Not everything, what is provided by the operating system can be completely exploited. Nevertheless many applications require exactly this. With AJAX for example it is possible to create quickly simple user interfaces. On the other hand complex UI´s lead soon to trouble because of the limitations of the http-protocol. The main reason is, that the communication between client and server is triggered only by the client. AJAX simulates the inverse way by simulating the necessary life cycle by a polling technique, which never can be as effective as in tight coupled systems like for instance AWT or SWT. In such API´s the life cycle allows that the application can trigger instantiation and method calls in the user interface. [via]

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