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20060501 Monday May 01, 2006

Offline AJAX At Last with "Local AJAX"

Is Apache Derby, the SQL database written in Java, the answer to allowing web applications to run offline? David Berlind of ZDNet thinks so, and he's pointing to Sun's distribution of Derby (JavaDB) as the proof (I mentioned this in December). Can it ever succeed? Is this the rebirth of Java on the client (see Mark's view of what François is calling "Local AJAX")? Or are thick client programs the only way to work offline?You can probably guess what I think! Microsoft may have used its market power to prevent Java applets becoming a visual tool but they are just a Java Plug-In away from being the key to simple thin-client mobile solutions.

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Posted by webmink ( May 01 2006, 02:32:01 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
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A relational storage on the client would definitely allow for some cool stuff. I'm afraid it's only a small part of the work to facilitate offline AJAX apps though. Here's a demo wiki I wrote, "Take it with you" Wiki, which uses a primitive client-side storage and supports disconnected operations. When you reconnect, it offers to synchronize with the server. It turns out the synchronization is the more difficult part. http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000272.html

Posted by Julien Couvreur on May 02, 2006 at 05:58 PM PDT #

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