Desktop-like GUI in a web browser: Tibco's General Interface
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Dennis Fogg
Feb 12, 2007, 9:34:32 PM2/12/07
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I went to a conference this weekend and came across a software package that
allows a desktop-like GUI in your web browser (eg: similar to gmail, the new yahoo mail, google reader, etc).
This package allows developers to build "power-user" interfaces that don't require any software installation.
The package is from tibco and is called "general interface":
http://www.tibco.com/devnet/gi/default.jsp
The package is free and open source.
Coding the interface is in javascript.
Interestingly, they have an IDE where you build the GUI -- and the IDE is an example of this rich interface in the browser. That is, the IDE runs in the browser and is a good way to get a feel for what an interface
feels like when built with General Interface!
I tried a little bit. the GUI builder seems pretty easy to use (does push the CPU on my 3 year old desktop).
The code to interact with the GUI (at least in the examples) is very xml / ajax based. it expects to
to do web services calls to the web server and get xml results back to be parsed and presented in the GUI.
allows a desktop-like GUI in your web browser (eg: similar to gmail, the new yahoo mail, google reader, etc).
This package allows developers to build "power-user" interfaces that don't require any software installation.
The package is from tibco and is called "general interface":
http://www.tibco.com/devnet/gi/default.jsp
The package is free and open source.
Coding the interface is in javascript.
Interestingly, they have an IDE where you build the GUI -- and the IDE is an example of this rich interface in the browser. That is, the IDE runs in the browser and is a good way to get a feel for what an interface
feels like when built with General Interface!
I tried a little bit. the GUI builder seems pretty easy to use (does push the CPU on my 3 year old desktop).
The code to interact with the GUI (at least in the examples) is very xml / ajax based. it expects to
to do web services calls to the web server and get xml results back to be parsed and presented in the GUI.
Niraj N Shah
Feb 12, 2007, 11:42:59 PM2/12/07
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That's interesting Tibco open-sourced it. Any constraints or gotchas on the licensing such as "ya gotta buy the server from us" ?
From what I remember, Tibco General Interface was IE-only. Still true?
Jackbe.com is another in the same market space. Another is Laszlo combined with an Eclipse plugin for GUI-building. And one other company I forget right now, sorry.
-- Niraj
Dennis Fogg
Feb 13, 2007, 3:46:11 AM2/13/07
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Yeah, I was surprised GI was open sourced too and
even asked the presenter about it
who said that Tibco hopes to sell more SOA backends when there are
more ajax front-ends like GI to consume them.
License is liberal according to the talk (BSD i believe).
also from the talk: they used to be IE only since they focused on the
enterprise, but the recent release is IE 6 & 7 and Firefox 1.5 & 2
(and safari is in the works).
was some mention of openlaszlo at the talk and how that has been
weened from flash.
Dennis
even asked the presenter about it
who said that Tibco hopes to sell more SOA backends when there are
more ajax front-ends like GI to consume them.
License is liberal according to the talk (BSD i believe).
also from the talk: they used to be IE only since they focused on the
enterprise, but the recent release is IE 6 & 7 and Firefox 1.5 & 2
(and safari is in the works).
was some mention of openlaszlo at the talk and how that has been
weened from flash.
Dennis
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