Google Developer Day 2011 was a great opportunity to show QAFE to developers and get some instant feedback. We, QAFE team, are true Google Webtoolkit fans and we showed what we did with that technology. Furthermore, we made it really easy to deploy to App Engine (App Engine has some restrictions which might result in serious code refactoring). We took care of the restrictions so that everybody can deploy to App Engine in a matter of seconds!
The developer Day really was not about sales. We got usual feedback and some very good questions.
The QAFE showcase was the QAFE Runtime, the Technology Independent implementation (in this case using Adobe Flex) and the Developer Environment. The Eclipse IDE was extended with the latest QAML Builder Plugin, which not only has a drag-n-drop from the UI but also for the Service Oriented Architecture, integrating with resources. The fact that the this was graphically shown, was a huge surprise for many. QAFE workspace is fully maven based, so having unit tests/selenium or debugging is quite easy. Also, not having compile time, but a simple reload of the applications, was an eye-opener for many visitors to our sandbox location.
In between giving demonstrations, we had some time to visit some of the sessions, which were of excellent quality. See: http://www.google.com/events/developerday/2011/berlin/agenda.html Especially Eric Bidelman’s session with the teasing title “These Aren’t the Sites You’re Looking For: Modern HTML5 Web Apps ” was excellent. Another one was about BigQuery, live demos of the new GoogleTV, HTML5, Android, etc. All about what we make of the web, and we still have a lot to do: for developers next year will be even more interesting!
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Google Developer Day 2011 Berlin was amazing!
Web 2.0
Being truly technology-independent by nature QAFE renders to any Web2.0-standard out there, like Google Web Toolkit (javascript+HTML based solution), Adobe Flex (plugin technology), and (soon) HTML5. The definition of Web2.0 goes beyond modern web applications and technologies though. It also refers to web-based communities and social networking sites. Since QAFE is all about Web2.0 we decided to tweak the homepage of this site to make it just a little bit more Web2.0, by featuring our latest tweets. Have a look here. And if you have an account on Twitter, look us up.
QAFE is Adobe AIRborne
As you know, with QAFE you can render all sorts of enterprise applications to several Web2.0 front-ends. For instance GWT (based on Javascript) and Adobe Flex (a plug-in technology). Unfortunately, because of security policies, plug-in technologies like Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight are not always allowed inside corporations. Especially for such environments with limited browser capabilities QAFE now launches a safe connection through Adobe AIR.
Thanks to the Adobe AIR runtime QAFE’s enterprise web applications can now also be deployed as desktop applications as well. Providing all the conveniences of a desktop application while giving the browser a rest. Ensuring safe installations by requiring digital signatures on each AIR application to identify the application and its creator before install.
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QAFE Basics: Declarative SOA (part 1)
When you go to http://demo.qafe.com, the first application that starts is the “Showcase” Application.
This Showcase application is a QAFE Application, written in QAML. In the tree on the right, you’ll see Components and Events. (more…)
