The components make it possible to handle quite sizeable datasets at the client, and without the need to make querys to a database, since a read-only database can consist of a simple csv-file.
Amongst other things, this saves the server from having to construct datasets, making it able to serve many more clients.
New features recently added :
- Application-wide Undo/Redo-history using a simple, but nested, form of transaction objects. Yes, you heard it here first, undo on the web!
- An animation class for facilitatin non-blocking DHTML animations. Example here.
Things about to happen soon(TM):
- A generalized client and corresponding stubs(for PHP, Perl, ASP.net or whatever) for handling querying and posting to databases is the next thing, using some of the "transactions" for bulked updates.
- A decompression algorithm(to crunch bandwith even further).
The goal is to have the power of AJAX whilst hiding much of it's complexity and without as much of the overhead as possible(maybe not using xml for conveying data, for example).
There is more information in the documentation section of this page.Project homepage at sourceforge.net
You can see the components in action at www.menialtools.com
There is also a simple code generator.
NOTE: This project is not actively maintained, however, parts of this project has moved to the Business Process Management System Optimal BPM. Check out that later on.
