So finally we had a demo on Building AJAX Applications with NetBeans 6.0 today with few teachers
and a reasonable amount of students attending the tech talk. It lasted for 75 minutes.
The talk started with a brief introduction of NetBeans and its various features.
It followed with an introduction to AJAX, its usage and comparison against the conventional web applications.
Then i showed them a small yet useful Ajax demo and talked in detail about its anatomy describing
how the asynchronous communication is taking place.
The technologies that are used in AJAX are
--> JavaScript
--> DOM API (Document Object Model - Application Programmable Interface)
--> CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
--> XMLHttpRequest Object.
A very good tutorial on the same can be found on http://www.javapassion.com/ajaxcodecamp
Hats off to Sang Shin for maintaining and making such a friendly and resourceful website.
Its a boon for students and developers alike.
Coming back to the talk, I also showed to the students various jMaki toolkits and widgets that facilitate easy
drag and drop development of web applications by showing them the jMaki Dojo Toolkit esp.
<> The Tabbed View,
<> The Fish Eye,
<> The Accordion,
<> The Dojo Clock,
<> The Dojo Tree and some more widgets.
--- Making my point across ---
The students were left impressed and asking for more. 
The session was overall interactive with students participating and i also distributed
Sun's Caps, Mugs and Pens to the curious, willing and interactive students.
All Smiles after the talk was over !!
The presentation can be found on Java User Group Of Delhi University
I forgot to add that i used Glassfish as my Application Server for the demo. Infact, every demo that i do(that requires any app server) i always prefer Glassfish as that makes life easy and comes pre-configured with NB. So the user/developer is saved from hell lot of work.
Posted by Agraj on March 11, 2008 at 07:33 PM IST #
hi
it was a nice effort as far as this blog is concerned,i hope u got gr8 reviews from all your mates too!i also enjoyed the work published here on this blog!
keep rocking and innovating methods of persistent learning!
i am very happy to see you getting associated with coveted sun group!
keep doing the gr8 job!
Posted by Mantabya on March 12, 2008 at 11:02 PM IST #
"All Smiles after the talk was over !!"
Yes, I can see that. Looks an interesting talk. It is nice to meet you Agraj :-)
Posted by Judy on April 25, 2008 at 07:39 AM IST #