Integrating Spring into your application adds a lot of advantages like better modularity, great flexibility for developers, perfect testability of your code etc. Integrating Spring into JSF also adds cool possibilities for developers like usage of Spring AOP in backing beans or security checks for backing bean methods with usage of "spring-security".

Adobe® AIR™ allows you to leverage your existing web development skills to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop. You can choose to develop with Adobe Flex or with Ajax.

In this article I will give you directions on how to build applications with Backbase Enterprise Ajax framework running in Adobe AIR, will explain best practices for the combination and will show a sample application running on the Backbase framework in the Adobe AIR execution container.

Firefox is great for web development because there are many useful plug-ins, but ideally you'd want a second Firefox instance for fast regular web browsing. This article describes how to configure multiple Firefox 2.x profiles, and how to run multiple profiles at the same time.

This is a simple example that shows how to extend a standard "out of box" window widget and implement nice looking shadow. This article contains step-by-step instructions for how to use this 'shadow window' in your own Backbase projects, for both the Chameleon and the System skin. This is a screen capture of the widgets:

Backbase Enterprise Ajax 4.2 Client Edition brings many new features and improvements, ranging from CSS selectors to improved data binding and redesigned skins and Widgets. Please scroll down to read the details.

Performance of browsers is a hot topic nowadays, and Ajax Toolkits are always busy squeezing out those last milliseconds. Internally at Backbase we also have a performance testing framework which tests every release for possible performance degradation. Normally we only compare different versions of Backbase, but what if we compare different browsers? And what if we compare it to IE8 beta 1 (released today), Firefox nightly, and Safari nightly builds?

Many websites have interesting new ways of displaying menu items or sets of images. Popular among these is the fish eye. We describe in this blog how surprisingly easy it is to define a fish eye using using the Backbase Tag Definition Language (TDL), very similar to this demo: http://demo.backbase.com/3rdparty/dojo_fisheye/.

We've just sent out the new Backbase Ajax Newsletter, which is now also available online. It includes highlights of the BDN, interesting Ajax news and Backbase company news.