The IBM AlphaWorks website has recently released an integrated development environment for developing a Laszlo application (actually an Eclipse plugin) that allows J2EE developers to quickly develop Laszlo-based Rich Client applications in their familiar Eclipse environments. The plugin can be downloaded at the following address:
http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ide4laszlo
In addition, the AlphaWorks website also provides an example application developed by Laszlo, showing the process of developing a Laszlo application in an Eclispe environment. The address of Demo is as follows:
Http://dl.alphaworks.ibm.com/technologies/rcb/demo.html
Laszlo is an open source Rich Client development environment. When using the Laszlo platform, the developer only needs to write a description language named LZX (where XML and JavaScript) are integrated, and the Laszlo platform running on the J2EE application server will compile it into a Flash file and transfer it to the client. Laszlo and XUL, XAML are very similar to the operation principle. But its biggest advantage is that it compiles the description language into flash, and Flash is a display form supported by any browser, so that the browser is solved with the browser. Moreover, in the future plan, Laszlo can also compile LZX into Java or .NET local code, greatly improve operational efficiency. Recently, Laszlo's CTO David Temkin has accepted an interview and made more introductions to Laszlo's strategic and development:
Http://news.com.com/david vs. goliath vs. goliath/2008-7344_3-5457982.html
