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

By: John Crupi; Dan Malks; Luis Derechin

May. 23, 2007 01:00 PM

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 for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications.

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:

WYSIWYG mode, called JackBe Visual UI Builder
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.

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About John Crupi
John Crupi is the CTO of JackBe Corporation. As CTO he is entrusted with understanding market forces and business drivers to drive JackBe's technical vision and strategy. He has 20 years experience in OO and enterprise distributed computing. Previously, Crupi spent eight years with Sun Microsystems, serving as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Sun's Enterprise Web Services Practice. He is co-author of the highly popular 'Core J2EE Patterns' book, has written many articles for various magazines and is a well-known speaker around the globe. He is a frequent blogger and was selected to join the International Advisory board for SYS-CON's AJAX & RIA Journal.

About Dan Malks
Dan Malks is Vice President of Application Platform Development at JackBe. He was a contributor to SYS-CON's best-selling 'Real-World AJAX' blockbuster (Chapter 16: Business RIAs: Creating the 'AJAX Bank' Application).

About Luis Derechin
Luis Derechin is the CEO of JackBe and is also a co-founder. Leader of JackBe both for daily operations and for long-term strategy, he has a noted history of founding companies that become both leaders in their categories and recognized successes. JackBe is Luis Derechin's third start-up?the previous two having been D'Hogar, a retail company that earned the loyalty of more than 500,000 customers, and AviMed, an online software provider for more than 17,000 healthcare professionals. He studied Business at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico and engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

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