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JavaScript

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DEFINITION: JavaScript is an interpreted programming or script language from Netscape. It is somewhat similar in capability to Microsoft'sVisual Basic, Sun's Tcl, the UNIX-derived Perl, and IBM's REXX. In general, script languages are easier and faster to code in than the more structured and compiled languages such as C  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on JavaScript
Ajax: A Rich Internet Application Technology
sponsored by Burton Group
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 18 Apr 2008 | Published: 09 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: This Application Platform Strategies report by Senior Analyst Richard Monson-Haefel explains Ajax and recommends how an enterprise should adopt Ajax.

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TOPICS:  AJAX | HTML | Internet | JavaScript | Web Content Management | XML
ICEfaces and Spring 2.5 in Java EE
sponsored by ICEsoft Technologies
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
SUMMARY: This E-Guide explores methods for optimizing rich application development and deployment in a Java EE environment.

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TOPICS:  AJAX | Application Server | Java | JavaScript
 
JAVASCRIPT DEFINITION (continued): …  and C++. Script languages generally take longer to process than compiled languages, but are very useful for shorter programs.

JavaScript is used in Web site development to do such things as:

  • Automatically change a formatted date on a Web page
  • Cause a linked-to page to appear in a popup window
  • Cause text or a graphic image to change during a mouse rollover

JavaScript uses some of the same ideas found in Java, the compiled object-oriented programming derived from C++. JavaScript code can be … 
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