Tuesday, June 28, 2005

MS rolling out Ajax toolkit

Looks like Microsoft will be rolling out an Ajax-enabling toolkit called Atlas.

Microsoft's Atlas is a "Web client framework" designed to make the job of building AJAX-style applications simpler, said Charles Fitzgerald, the company's general manager for platform technologies.

"People who do (AJAX development) are rocket scientists," Fitzgerald said. "In some ways, this papers over the mess that is JavaScript development. It's easy-to-build 'spaghetti' code."

Atlas--which is a downloadable piece of JavaScript code--gives developers a more structured environment for building applications, providing time-saving services such as an object model and debugging, he said. It will work across any Web browser that supports AJAX technologies.

The "rocket science" quote is funny, 'cause one of the questions posed at the Ajax Summit I attended last month was along the lines of "is Ajax rocket science?" Answer: only if you want to build rockets.

2 Comments:

At 10:16 AM, Blogger wpbasti said...

Where could this thing be obtained? Are there any public version? What is the licence?

 
At 4:53 PM, Blogger Timlt said...

You can download the bits for the preview release for free, which enables you to create an Atlas web site if you have Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 or VS 2005 Release Candidate.

Go to: http://atlas.asp.net

Download one of the 2 VSI files listed on the home page. One is for a series of labs that shows how to create simple Atlas apps, the other is for creating a blank Atlas site.

 

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