Not directly related to JNEXT, but thought this might benefit various JavaScript/Web developers. I wanted but couldn't find a simple but solid JavaScript charting object on the net for creating pie charts and bar graphs so as usually happens in these situations I made my own. It is based on a slightly modified version of Walter Zorn's fantastic JavaScript graphics library and is built in such a way that you just pass the values and JavaScript does all the dirty cosmetic work for you (just view the source to see how simple it is).

To see a sample, just click here

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Since it seems that every time I look there's yet another big company that is joining the RIA technology party, I've compiled the ones I'm aware of today. I hope to soon compile a more detailed comparison table of the various technologies (including JNEXT)

Name	Company	Link
FLEX, AIR	Adobe	http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
SilverLight	Microsoft	http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
Google Gears	Google	http://gears.google.com/
Prism	Mozilla	http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Prism
JavaFX	Sun	http://www.sun.com/software/javafx/index.jsp
BrowserPlus	Yahoo	http://browserplus.yahoo.com/

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Everyday dynamics has left me with little time to devote to closing a release, also there has been a lot of progress in adding support for additional infrastructure.

For those who would like to get a taste of 1.0.8 you can compile the sources - download the sources using bazaar as follows:

bzr branch http://jnext.org/src jnext

In case you're wondering what "additional infrastructure" is - its an implementation of jnext over flash. A proof of concept has been made and now what is left is to glue the pieces together.

so, sorry for the delay, but it will be worth it in the end


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Releasing JNEXT 1.0.8 is taking a bit of time since there's a lot of code that was added and reorganized: support for all the plugins on Mac OS/X, refactoring part of the code, adding JavaScript and internal plugin namespaces, adding the external libraries as part of the trunk for a self contained build environment, moving over from SVN to Bazaar and other tasks all contributed to the delay. There's a lot of other things that are in the pipeline as well but will have to wait for 1.0.9.

Anyway - the planned release date for JNEXT 1.0.8 is sometime during the begining of May - however if you wish to see the latest source, install bazaar (available for Windows, Linux & OS/X) and from the command line execute

bzr branch http://jnext.org/src jnext

which will download the latest version of the code to a folder named jnext

The latest source code runs all the plugins on all 3 platforms.

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I've been busy cleaning up the JNEXT framework for release 1.0.8 - the main change is the support for OS/X and organizing the source code so that all the existing plugins are self contained (i.e the source will also include any external library sources a plugin depends on, which is the case with the SQLite3 JNEXT extension).

Its a slow process since it involves double checking that everything complies and runs without a problem on Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X

The screen shot below illustrates accessing an SQLite 3 database from Javascript with the JNEXT SQLite3 extension on Mac OS/X from both Safari and Firefox.



This is just the beginning - I'm really excited to think about all the applications just waiting to be written with JNEXT. I've had my share of UI development, and nothing comes close to the speed of creating applications this way... :-)

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