Web Development with TIBCO General Interface: Building AJAX Clients for Enterprise SOA

Foreword by Michael Peachey

Building rich interactive web-based applications without proper tools is a daunting task. Web application developers face numerous challenges when building large, world-class client applications that run in the browser—including but not limited to a lack of standards around Internet browsers. For example, a piece of JavaScript code that works well in Internet Explorer may not work at all in Mozilla Firefox or on Safari. Additionally, while good tools existed for easing the burden of building web pages, there were no similar tools for web applications. There were no web equivalents for the standard UI controls or widgets found in software design—objects such as dialog boxes, tables and grids, tabbed panes, etc. had ...