Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Business RIAs: Creating the 'AJAX Bank' Application with the JackBe NQ Suite

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Business RIAs: Creating the 'AJAX Bank' Application with the JackBe NQ Suite

JackBe's NQ Suite is a complete set of development tools that allows rapid development of sophisticated rich client applications using AJAX.

Advantages
JackBe's NQ Suite offers several advantages over AJAX development platforms and other non-AJAX approaches to rich Internet applications. These advantages include:

• Secure, standards-based, with no plug-ins
• Complete, delivered AJAX UI platform
• Visual development to simplify AJAX development dramatically
• JackBe Markup Language (JBML) and API provide programming and markup-based development
• Complete cross-browser support for all major browsers
• Easily integrates with existing server-side code and services
• Built for scalability and bandwidth performance

JackBe's NQ Suite is built on the AJAX style of rich Internet applications. Figure 16.1 shows how JackBe-enabled applications are structured. A key principle of JackBe's architecture is the clean separation of the application's presentation layer from the back-end process and data services.

Components
The JackBe NQ Suite can be broken down into subsystems as shown in Figure 16.2. Together these components provide the complete toolkit needed to build enterprise-grade AJAX applications.

Development Modes
JackBe provides developers with a way to offer powerful solutions that fit customer needs. It is with this in mind that JackBe's IDE offers two distinct programming options:

1. WYSIWYG mode, called JackBe Visual UI Builder
2. The JBML markup language mode.

The different options let each individual developer work in the most comfortable and productive mode.

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs, click here to order.