Joe Walker
The Ajax Experience
San Francisco · May 10 - 12, 2006
Creator of DWR
Joe Walker is a developer and consultant working on advanced web development techniques like AJAX.
He recently developed Direct Web Remoting, (DWR) which has become the most popular Ajax toolkit for Java by making browser/server interaction intuitive for web developers. See http://www.directwebremoting.com
He currently works through his consultancy, Getahead (http://getahead.org/), which is supplying a growing number of customers with AJAX and advanced web solutions.
Presentations
Writing Advanced Ajax Applications with DWR
DWR is a very popular way to Ajax enable almost any Java based web application. We'll look at how to integrate DWR into your existing web applications whatever your current codebase looks like. We'll also look at how to avoid the common mistakes people make when writing a first Ajax application, and see how you can debug problems using best
available tools.
There are several tricks you can use to make your website more responsive and easier to use that we will explain, along with looking at the available libraries to reduce the amount of code you need to write.