web2.0

Best Web2.0 framework for Java?

Hi all, this question is quite related to the one asked here, however, I am not interested in the best web framework, but in the best web2.0 framework for Java. First, here is what I want to achieve: Cutting-Edge GUI experience (see e.g. stackoverflow.com ;-) , http://presentlyapp.com/ and so many more) Easy MVC handling (similar to t...

How to Add RSS code in JAVA

Hey I want to add RSS feeds to my page. And i am making a page in Servlet in netbeans 6.7.1 How can i add RSS code? I mean what lib and what specific code should i write? -Sundhas ...

Drag and drop components in a website with the help of javascript and rails?

I am looking for a drag and drop components implementation for a website similar to http://www.netvibes.com. So the positions of the components should be saved in database. If any one can help me with any javascript or rails tutorial implementation or guidance for this, that will help a lot. ...

frameworks to support RIA/Web 2.0 technologies

are there any frameworks that can help an application support all/most of the RIA technologies like ajax, flex, javafx, siverlight? essentially a framework and/or tools to help build an application that can support client-side UI components built using RIA technologies. How does GWT fair in this respect? ...

Are there reasons why the java/spring/hibernate stack aren't popular in the web 2.0 space?

I am really impressed with the java/spring/hibernate stack, and really want to dive in. Just curious, why are so many people using rails when java/spring/hibernate are tried and true? I guesss its because of the convention over configuration and time to launch? (spring has really gone the annotation route so less xml though). I reali...

REST api design to retrieve summary information

I have a scenario in which I have REST API which manages a Resource which we will call Group. A Group is similar in concept to a discussion forum in Google Groups. Now I have two GET access method which I believe needs separate representations. The 1st GET access method retrieves the minimal amount of information about a Group. Given ...

Website for prototyping OO class diagrams

Do any web 2.0 like websites exist for prototyping object oriented class diagrams? ...

Is ASP.Net Server Control, Postback Architecture failed in current Web 2.0 World.

What i am looking around me is the drastically change in ASP.Net Architecture. More and more company are following the approach of JSON based wcf service in middle tier. Plain HTML based UI tier with JQuery/Ajax. No Postback at all, This contradicts the Default behaviour of Asp.Net Server Control/Code Behind Event handler/Postback. I ...

penetration of web 2.0 features amongst users?

I have a survey web-app that is public facing. I want to set up automated testing with Selenium, but selenium can't capture javascript alerts that we're currently using on the site. I'm thinking about changing our user-facing error notifications to some web 2.0 javascript library so that it is accessible to Selenium. However, I'm not s...

HCI challenges of Web 2.0

What are the HCI challenges of Web 2.0? ...

Scriptaculous and IE 6?

I develop a public-facing survey website. We get heavy IE6 usage, and it's not going away any time soon. Since we're dealing with the public, we can't tell people to use something else. I wanted to start using selenium to do automated web testing, but it can't handle javascript alert boxes, which we use for error messages. I was think...

Difference between Ajax and Dojo

Hi, can you explain to me the difference between Ajax and Dojo? ...

How to find a coding buddy

I was reading Jeff Atwood's blog and he mentioned that he was suffering from code-paralysis (he called it analysis paralysis, but I feel like it's also code paralysis) when he didn't have a code buddy. Unfortunately I think that Jeff has set the bar a bit high, because he only works with developers who are really amazing. The only reason...

Silverlight vs web 2.0

I understand that silverlight has come a long way since its inception, but I have always struggled to find the business need for silverlight. What are the advantages and disadvantages of silverlight 4.0 vs modern html5 and javascript libraries like jQuery or ExtJS? Should i use silverlight or a combination of html5 and javascript for my...

Reading Web 2.0 HTML Source Code with Perl

Is it possible to read HTML Web 2.0 Source Code that is dynamically generated ? The Perl LWP with its agent->response does not pick up any dynamically generated HTML code. Many websites today are generating dynamic html. If I am shoppping for best prices, and the prices are dynamically fetched and dumped, then I am out of business. Are...

twitter error share link

These are the steps to experiment twitter error with share link: Logout from twitter. go to twitter.com/home?status=the status here output: got login page and login result: post login page ignoring the status Any workarround to keep the status message post-login? thx. ...

preload="true" hyperlinks

Is there a method, javascript script or anything that could allow to preload hyperlinks in the page? For instance, I want that when user comes to http://ahostel.lt/ and the page fully loads, the script would start preloading other pages in the navigation (Booking, Map, Facilities, Look around, [...]). So when user clicks on any of those ...

Thoughts on drop shadows

I would like to gather the thoughts of some people in terms of ui. Some co-developers of mine seem to be very 'trigger happy' when putting css drop shadows on elements. Thinking its web 2.0ish they have been putting it on so many elements that it looks like every part of the page is trying to come at you.. Personally i dont thing is very...

What website features are essential for attracting IT Pros from corporations?

I'm developing a set of websites that are geared towards the IT Professional at businesses ranging from 10 to 5,000 employees (small/med business). Most IT Professional expects a certain set of features when dealing with blogs, forums (such as gravitar)... but what I'm most interested in are the ~other~ addins that would be used in a si...

How safe is it to assume that most users will have JS enabled?

Possible Duplicates: Is it reasonable to assume my visitors have javascript enabled? How many people disable JavaScript? I know that JS should only be used to enhance functionality and users with JS disabled should still be able to use your website. But how often does that really happen nowadays? A majority of modern "Web 2....