Nitobi have just released Q2 version of its Complete UI solution for Ajax developers. Highlighted in this release the full Safari 3 support, in addition to a new hierarchical grid component and a variety of new themes. Below some of the new features :

• Dreamweaver extensions: New multi-component extensions make common use-cases like master-detail grids easier.
• TreeGrid: Introducing a new component that takes the best of Nitobi's Tree and Grid and combines them in a high-speed hierarchical Ajax datagrid.
• Support for Safari 3: All of our components now support Safari 3.
• Snazzy looking components: We've added a bunch of new themes with a variety of layout and color schemes. Check out the screenshot gallery for the new themes.

Nitobi Complete UI is available for J2EE, ASP.NET, PHP, Classic ASP, or Coldfusion MX. For a limited time, Complete UI is on sale for 15% off the regular price. You can read the complete press release here http://www.nitobi.com/news/?a=58.

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Last week we announced in exclusivity the new features of the Ajax RAD tool Morfik2. This week everyone can download the new version 2.0.0.63 of both M2 WebOS and Express Edition and get a look inside one of the very advanced Ajax tools. Robert Scoble had an interesting interview with Aram Mirkazemi, the CEO of Morfik, during the Web 2.0 Expo; you can watch the video here. You can download a 30-Day trial from morfik.com.

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Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA - Catalyst Resources, a leader in rapid application design and Backbase, the leading provider of enterprise software for creating AJAX-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), announce an alliance to provide an end-to-end design and development solution for rich Customer Engagement and Enterprise AJAX applications.

AJAX, already the leading technology for rapid development and deployment of Rich Internet Applications, is being adopted at an increasingly rapid pace by small and medium size businesses as well as large enterprises. But companies face a number of hurtles as they try to make this RIA transition. While it is easy to add in a few flashy widgets to a webpage, it requires a different level of expertise to enhance user experience with measurable business value and develop code that is scalable, high performance, and easily maintained.

The end-to-end design and development solution from Catalyst Resources and Backbase provides this expertise. It is designed to help organizations make better business decisions, get their new projects to market faster and significantly reduce the investment required to bring internal resources up to speed.

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Ext JS 2.1 have just released with a beta Ext GWT 1.0, in addition to an early preview of Ext JS 3.0. Most important change in my opinion is the licence that changed from LGPL to GPL v3, of course in a Dual Licensing Model. Now that the library is becoming more and more mature, it was time to move to a more efficient commercial model. So from today, you can use ExtJS in your open source project compatible with GPLv3, otherwise you have to buy a commercial license. Pricing start from $289 for single developer to $14,449 for enterprise having up to 100 developers.

New features in Ext JS 2.1 include :

- Slider : added support for vertical and horizontal orientation, incremental snapping, tooltips, custom styling and a lot more
- StatusBar : can now be rendered into any panel or window and include more interactivity of what's happening in the application
- Full REST Support
- New Grid Filtering sample
- New Layout Browser sample
- New Custom Drag & Drop

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Morfik revealed today Morfik M2, a major update of the RAD toolkit for the web. With this release Morfik made two products announcements in one: Morfik Express and Morfik WebOS. The Express edition aims to help developers create Ajax front-end for the web that can connect to any server-side technology such as PHP, ASP, Ruby … and using any standard protocol such as JSON, SOAP or REST. Morfik Express is ideal for established services that are looking to extend their functionalities or to provide a new rich user experience for platforms such as Google widgets, Facebook, Hi5, MySpace or SalesForce.com ...

New M2 project view

The WebOS edition focuses on the development of entire Ajax solutions: Server-side and Client-side. This gives to developers all the power of the Express edition combined with a server side technology in intranets or hosted cloud computing environment. Morfik WebOS is a very complete RAD solution for developers to conceptualize, design, build, test and deploy advanced Web 2.0 applications.

Morfik M2 comes with a completely new interface ala Office 2007 with a lot of improvements and new features; even the text editor has been improved and made easy to switch between text and visual edition. Below are more detailed features of M2 :

Zoom and filter in the project view

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Backbase released today a major update of their Enterprise Ajax framework. Major new featres and improvements have been added to the new release including :

- Lightweight Ajax Support (single-DOM)
- Data binding
- Adobe AIR support
- More widgets and redesigned skin
- Sample layouts
- Performance enhancements

With these new features Backbase Enterprise Ajax gave developers the choice to develop their Ajax apps. Developers can choose between rich and lightweight Ajax functionality, between CSS and XPath, between JavaScript and tag-based development, between JSON and XML, between native widgets and 3rd party widgets and between online and offline RIAs. More features details here, and you can see widgets demo in the widget explorer. Below the press release :

Backbase Releases Enterprise Ajax 4.2, Offering Developers “Choice”

Increases productivity with choice of technology and methodology for Ajax development

San Mateo, California, April, 16th, 2008. Today, Backbase, The Ajax CompanyTM, introduces Enterprise Ajax 4.2, a new version of the industry leading Ajax framework. This new release gives developers more choice than any other Ajax framework. Choice translates into unmatched productivity, as Ajax developers can choose their preferred technology and methodology.

Unlike most other Ajax solutions, the new Enterprise Ajax framework supports multiple development technologies methodologies: developers can choose between rich and lightweight Ajax functionality, between CSS and XPath, between JavaScript and tag-based development, between JSON and XML, between native widgets and 3rd party widgets and between online and offline RIAs.

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