| Name | Company | Link |
| FLEX, AIR | Adobe | http://www.adobe.com/products/air/ |
| SilverLight | Microsoft | http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ |
| Google Gears | 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 jnextwhich 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.
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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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Finally jNext for Mac OS/X is working on both Safari and Firefox. I'd first like to express my gratitude to Nir Soffer the Mac expert, for providing a scriptable NPAPI sample that works on both browsers. Below is a screen shot of the jNext FileReader extension running on both Safari and Firefox:
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I've been holding back on releasing new jNext extensions since I wanted to first complete support for jNext on all the major OS platforms. Now that this is complete, prepare to see a whole lot of powerful extensions unleashed during the course of the next few weeks :-)
P.S. The formal release of jNext with the Mac OS/X support (1.0.8) is planned within the next few days.
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