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Gaiaware provides Web UI controls for Web app creation


By Jeff Feinman
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December 16, 2009 —  Norwegian company Gaiaware is trying to make the creation of AJAX applications easier on the ASP.NET platform.

Gaia Ajax, Gaiaware’s ASP.NET AJAX library, provides 41 Web UI controls for developers to use in creating object-oriented Web applications using a managed language such as C# or VB.NET, according to the company. Managed .NET code, a differentiation created by Microsoft to identify code running under the .NET Common Language Runtime, makes it much easier for developers to maintain business applications because developers don’t have to worry about smaller details like browser compatibility, said Stian Solberg, cofounder of Gaiaware. Additionally, developers can check the compile time of their code with managed code, he said.

Gaia Ajax 3.6, released in early December, introduces DRIMR (Dynamic Removals, Inserts, Moves and Replacements), a technology that will remove and reuse controls without having to refresh the page.

In discussing the benefits of DRIMR, Solberg said that using ASP.NET AJAX can result in using large amounts of data.

“The basic concept of ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanels is that you surround an area where you want to update HTML so you don’t disrupt the whole page, and this often leads to writing unnecessary HTML,” he said. “But now, with DRIMR, because we’ve built our own AJAX engine, we are able to insert controls anywhere in the page without re-rendering.”

Another new feature in Gaia Ajax 3.6 is GridView, which Solberg called a premier example of the DRIMR technology as it enables an advanced GridView for ASP.NET. It allows developers to carry out operations like filtering, sorting, selections, deletions and updates.

When asked about difficulties building AJAX applications using ASP.NET, Solberg said there are a number of challenges with how Microsoft has built their ASP.NET AJAX framework.

“You often need to combine JavaScript on the client, exposing separate JSON services to consume them from the client in combination with server-side logic,” he said. “Gaia has a simple model where you only do things in one place, at the server.”

Solberg added that when he and the other founders began first working with ASP.NET AJAX, it was very hard to maintain their Web applications because of the reasons above. That was the primary reason for creating a “little helper library” to alleviate those issues.

Gaia Ajax is offered as a dual license, so it can be used to build open-source Web applications or commercial applications. A 12-month professional developer subscription, which includes unlimited deployment and version updates, is priced at US$475.




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