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Has anyone used Jaxer in production?

Has anyone used Jaxer in a production environment, I am curious as to how it holds up compared to something like php, ruby, etc. and if anyone knows of any pitfalls to using it that are well known. ...

Is anyone familiar with Jaxer? I'm looking for pros and cons.

I realize that this question has been asked before, but it has been a month with no decent responses... I'm looking at Aptana's Jaxer and I find the concept to be very exciting. Here is a quick overview for those who are not familiar with it: Jaxer is, in their words, "the world's first true AJAX server". It is based on the Mozilla...

Defining objects when using Jaxer

I've been playing with Jaxer and while the concept is very cool I cannot figure out how to define objects that are available on both the client and the server. None of the examples I can find define objects at all. I'd like to be able to define an object and specify which methods will be available on the server, which will be available ...

How do I debug server side code in Aptana Jaxer?

I'm trying to debug some server-side JavaScript code running in Aptana Jaxer and I'm not having any success. I haven't even been able to find any tutorials or posts about this issue. Does anyone know if it's possible and if so, what am I missing? ...

AJAX or a server side framework?

I am working with a friend on building a web site, in general this web site will be a custom web app along with a very custom social network type of thing.. Currently I have a mock-up site that uses simple PHP with AJAX and JSON and JQUERY and I love how it works, I love the way it all fits together. But for a mock-up I did not implemen...

pros and cons of serverside javascript implementation??

Hi, I just started experimenting with Aptana Jaxer server side javascript engine for my next project. And i have few quesions about that By using server side JS, can we implement the whole web application without using any server side languages (like C#,java etc). Or server side JS sits in between the web server and other langauge sta...

Web host with Jaxer

I'm a guy who's hosted on HostGator because I want cheap PHP hosting. However, I've been playing with a Jaxer server on my linux box and I'd like to write web apps in it. Can anyone recommend an affordable host that runs or will allow me to run Jaxer? I'd rather not get a dedicated or VP server... Thanks to the community! ...

Jaxer and HTTP proxy requests...

Thanks to everyone in advance. I'm using Jaxer.sandbox and making requests just fine. I'd like these requests to go through my http proxy (like squid for example). Here is the code I that is currently working for me. window.onload = function() { //the url to scrape var url = "http://www.cnn.com/"; //our sandboxed browser var sandbox =...

Execute javascript on IIS server

I have the following situation. A customer uses JavaScript with jQuery to create a complex website. We would like to use JavaScript and jQuery on the server (IIS) for the following reasons: Skills transfer - we would like to use JavaScript and jQuery on the server and not have to use eg VB Script. / classic asp. .Net framework/Java et...

I want to run remote javascript on my server.

Hi, I've had a search and come up with Rhino and Jaxer is possible solutions, but wanted to put the queston out there anyway as I'm not sure they're quite what I'm after (especially if I have no control over the javascript, so I'm unable to add runat="server" for example). So, I want to call a remote page on a 3rd party site, from my s...

Find out sandbox.open(url,null.....) execution time

I am using Jaxer.Sandbox.open(url,null,openOptions); method to fetch url contents. I want to find out time required to fetch url content. If this process took long time say more than 6 sec. then custom error page should display. ...

Is there a server-side dom engine suitable for crawling?

I found a project, jaxer which embeds Firefox's JavaScript engine on the server side, so it can parse HTML server-side very well. But, this project seems dead. It is really helpful for crawling web pages to parse HTML & extract data. Is there some new technology useful for extracting information? ...