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ItsNat: Natural Ajax

ItsNat: Natural Ajax. Component Based Java Web Application Framework

ItsNat is an innovative open source Java AJAX Component based Web Framework, it offers a natural approach to modern web development.

Why natural? ItsNat leverages the old tools to build the new AJAX based Web 2.0 applications: pure (X)HTML and pure Java W3C DOM!

ItsNat is server centric using a unique approach called TBITS, “The Browser Is The Server”. ItsNat simulates a Universal W3C Java Browser at the server, with ItsNat the server mimics the behavior of a web browser, containing a W3C DOM Level 2 node tree and receiving W3C DOM Events.

Core features

ItsNat provides many more (core) features:

• Client to server synchronization
• Web-continuations (“continue” events)
• User defined event types
• Timers
• Long running server tasks
• COMET without special application servers
• DOM utils (to simplify DOM manipulation)
• Resolution of ${} based variables in markup
• ElementCSSInlineStyle support in the server
• Automatic page remote/view control of other users/sessions!!
• XML generation
• Non-HTML namespaces support like pure SVG with AJAX and SVG embedded in XHTML
• JavaScript generation utilities
• Events fired by the server sent to the client simulating user actions for instance to test the view from the server
• Custom pretty URLs
• Previous/forward document navigation (pull and push referrers with back/forward button support
• Degraded modes (AJAX disabled and JavaScript disabled modes)
• …

Tags: Ajax, Ajax framework, Ajax Java framework, ItsNat, web framework

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