Tibco provides free Ajax

Ajax may not be completely free of charge, but the Web indicates that the technology is booming and it is constantly moving forward toward free. Tibco Software Group released its latest General Interface product last month, with a free license for all public deployments.

This software has been released to version 3.1 for five years and provides an integrated development environment, you can use a visualization kit to Create Ajax and a wide variety of other network applications from start to end. Previously it was bound together with a standard software license, but Kevin Hakman, director of Tibco General Interface, said this model would not work for this developer-centric technology.

"Developers have been telling us that the starting enterprise price is beyond what we can afford. '"Hakman said," This way they can build and test it. If they like this tool, they hope to put it on the industrial chain ."

When General Interface is still computing like an old man in Ajax commercial products, companies like ClearNova and Exadel have released open-source development tools, these tools are embedded in the Java Development of the server at both ends of the peer. The open-source Eclipse Foundation can also be seen as an Ajax Tool project, and there are already many free Ajax/JavaScirpt libraries available for developers.

Gradually, once the company begins to seek the support and services for Ajax deployment for key tasks, rather than trying to absorb it to accomplish these tasks, the provider will decide to obtain their benefits. The Public License of General Interface allows any company to create an Ajax Interface on the Web. As an internal deployment, Tibco will increase in proportion to charge a license fee. This software will also have ISV and OEM licenses.

Ray Valdes, A Gartner analyst, pointed out: "There is a fast spread among developers at the recent level. If you want to still take a seat in the Ajax market, you must do something similar ."

He added that the widespread use of J2EE application servers should largely be attributed to the free provision of such tools among common developers.

"Back to the end of the last 1990s s, when you are going to demonstrate, they may have to install the application server on your hard disk," Valdes said. Finally, when IT companies chose java application server as the main development tool, IT became a favorable business.

Hakman recognized the underlying nature of this technology and said: "We have made an open invitation to developers ."

This tool has expanded the market and has begun to attract user interest. The Hakman team has tracked Ajax sampling in Google and noticed that it has increased from 13 million to 93 million in six months.

"The Ajax search results are more than those of the briney codecs," he said.

The latest version of General Interface has added visual drag and drop, added binding to any type of XML messages, and placed the debugging capability that allows visualization to enter a consistent loop.

General interfaces have also been integrated into Tibco's middleware stack. Hakman pointed out that Tibco's Business process management tool regulates the functions of the General Interface, and its Java Business Integration mediator can do the same thing.

These actions map the efforts of the industry to include Ajax and service-oriented architecture into one category. Valdes points out that Ajax should be a standard part of all development tools and be able to build all types of Web services from the beginning to the end or the Web applications being developed.

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