05.29.07

OpenLaszlo 4 Programming Tutorial

Posted on May 29th, 2007 in General, Documentation, Development by jgrandy

OpenLaszlo architect and ultimate insider Adam Wolff has recorded a screencast version of his wonderful OpenLaszlo programming tutorial, available below. Besides being a tour de force of ‘vim’ text-editing acrobatics, this tutorial demonstrates construction of a simple client-server application in OpenLaszlo 4, and highlights several of the most exciting features of the OL4 release. The video is about 40 minutes long, and best viewed at full resolution. Enjoy!


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05.24.07

Sebastian Wagner releases openmeetings

Posted on May 24th, 2007 in General, Sightings, Community by jgrandy

Long-standing OpenLaszlo community member Sebastian Wagner released a new open source project today named openmeetings. It’s a video conferencing and group collaboration application, built using OpenLaszlo’s new streaming media support and the open source media server Red5.

This sort of project is great for the OpenLaszlo community, and we wish Sebastian good fortune and many collaborators with this project!

05.16.07

Korean PC hardware online shop builds on OpenLaszlo

Posted on May 16th, 2007 in Sightings by Raju Bitter

PCAnn started an open beta phase for the new PC hardware configuration tool implemented with OpenLaszlo. I’ve always wondered how long it would take to see the first OpenLaszlo application online in Korea, as the country’s open source community is a lot smaller than the Japanese one. But Korea has one of the highest penetration rates for high speed internet connections, making it a perfect candidate for rich Internet applications. As more than 70% of the country’s internet users are connected with a speed of 22mBit or more application download size doesn’t matter in the Korean market.

PCAnn - first Korean OpenLaszlo application

The PCAnn OpenLaszlo application features drag&drop functionality for the wishlist the shopping cart as well as refined filtering functions for the various components on offer. We are excited to see OpenLaszlo adoption in Korea, adding another country to the already long list of countries with OpenLaszlo applications deployed. Congratulations to the PCAnn team!

05.10.07

Sun launches Project Orbit

Posted on May 10th, 2007 in General, Sightings, Announcements, Development by Max

The folks at Sun have been doing a tremendous job getting projects open sourced and released to the community. I’m pleased to announce that Project Orbit has been released by Sun, and is available here:
https://orbit.dev.java.net/

svn repository is here: https://orbit.dev.java.net/source/browse/orbit/

Project Orbit is another runtime for Laszlo that takes the DHTML runtime output and allows it to run in Java ME by emulating the browser DOM. From the main page: ‘Project Orbit is the Sun Java ME viewer of Laszlo content. It is a Java ME CDC/Personal Basis application that uses the Rhino engine to run LZX programming language Web 2.0 (AJAX style) applications.’

If you’d like to learn more, I’ll be speaking with Hinkmond Wong at JavaOne in San Francisco today at 4:10pm - sorry about the short notice!

There is a lot of low-hanging fruit here - integration with the OpenLaszlo developer’s console (a Java radio button), and tighter integration with the OpenLaszlo compiler come to mind. This is a community effort - Sun and OpenLaszlo are relying on folks to pitch in and help move the project forward. If you’re looking to contribute to a very cool, forward looking project, here’s your chance!