Web Development on .NET Framework using Microsoft's Volta
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Web applications are the rage of the application development world. Every zany developer looks forward to utilize the latest releases of platforms for developing large scale applications for the web, and there are a number of platforms in that regard.
AJAX, the use of which gained popularity when Google used it for the Gmail's interface has fired a stream of new UI level interactivity from Web interfaces. But there are several road blocks when it comes to developing applications to take advantage of AJAX. The client side needs Javascript coding while the server side can be done on JSP, or any other of the many platforms. Developers struggled to get the functionality part right while several issues came up in getting the disparate languages to communicate effectively.
Google released its Google Web Toolkit to ease the trouble that users were facing in marrying the client side code with the server side. Now users only needed to write code in Java which the GWT would convert to Javascript.
On the other hand, Microsoft and Adobe were locking horns on selling the concept of their next generation Web platforms to the developer world. Adobe had its Adobe Interactive Runtime (AIR) while Microsoft was touting the 'Silverlight'.
And now, Microsoft has come out with its Web Development tool called Volta. It is supposed to be an alternative to GWT for .NET developers. This means that .NET developers can choose from several programming languages that support the CLR engine (that is under the hood of the .NET platform) and write Web application programs focusing on the functionality part.
It is to be seen if the Microsoft tool does make a big difference in the open world of web development.
AJAX, the use of which gained popularity when Google used it for the Gmail's interface has fired a stream of new UI level interactivity from Web interfaces. But there are several road blocks when it comes to developing applications to take advantage of AJAX. The client side needs Javascript coding while the server side can be done on JSP, or any other of the many platforms. Developers struggled to get the functionality part right while several issues came up in getting the disparate languages to communicate effectively.
Google released its Google Web Toolkit to ease the trouble that users were facing in marrying the client side code with the server side. Now users only needed to write code in Java which the GWT would convert to Javascript.
On the other hand, Microsoft and Adobe were locking horns on selling the concept of their next generation Web platforms to the developer world. Adobe had its Adobe Interactive Runtime (AIR) while Microsoft was touting the 'Silverlight'.
And now, Microsoft has come out with its Web Development tool called Volta. It is supposed to be an alternative to GWT for .NET developers. This means that .NET developers can choose from several programming languages that support the CLR engine (that is under the hood of the .NET platform) and write Web application programs focusing on the functionality part.
It is to be seen if the Microsoft tool does make a big difference in the open world of web development.
