Frank's blog

4.1 Released

The brand new Backbase 4.1 Release is now available for download from this site.

The new release adds new functionality and addresses known issues with the Backbase Client Framework.

New and Improved with BB 4.1
• Powerful data binding system re-written from the ground up with examples and documentation
• New CRUD support added for all grids
• New support for JSON
• Greatly improved documentation errata and flow with targeted information for architects, developers and evaluators

Preview of project Telamon, the Backbase Visual Ajax Builder

Coming Soon !

Telamon is the only WYSIWYG Integrated Development Environment (IDE) specifically designed for Rapid Application Development of Ajax based applications. It uniquely allows you to make changes to your code while browsing through the pages.

Read more on Telamon page.

Re-inventing XMLHttpRequest

This article from my colleague Sergey attempts to summarize some experience in working with the XMLHttpRequest object by showing how to:

* Implement a cross-browser XMLHttpRequest object (to replace the existing one)
* Enable interception of the XMLHttpRequest objects operations
* Solve multiple browser-specific XMLHttpRequest issues

The approach described in the article empowers the Backbase Enterprise Ajax 4, Debugger application enabling its Input/Output (Net) inspector.

Read the full article.

BDN supports OpenID

OpenID (Wikipedia page) is an upcoming technology to reduce the number of logins/passwords you need to remember in your daily live. Quoting Wikipedia: