I developed some simple but interesting
prototypes for aggregating tasks on MySite
with MOSS 2007. I did that from scratch,
so I can focus on what I want to achieve,
and not need days for learning installing,
integrating and learning an AJAX api.
I think AJAX in Sharepoint will get THE
technology which shifts it to real big
usability. MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 has much
good web services to start with.
But my experience is that for a fast
and responsive AJAX application, you need
to write your own web services, which does
the aggregation on serverside. Otherwise
you have sometimes too much "roundtrips"
like
 - get the list of all memberships
 - for each membership
   - get the list of lists
   - for each list
     - get info if there are new entries
This is not one call to one webservice,
this are hundred calls, which is slow.
But its good that you can prototype
such AJAX functionality with out of the
box web services.
What I'm wondering about is, that there
is not much talk about AJAX and Sharepoint.
Maybe everyone builds his own killer app
and dont want to talk about til its finished ..
;-)
 Commented by <empty> on 1/9/2007 7:47:15 AM

Share Point will naturaly use MS Ajax (ATLAS) implementation. Do not waste you time.
 Commented by <empty> on 11/20/2006 10:29:14 AM

Continuing from last month’s list of recommended reading, here’s my short list of favorite blog entries

 Commented by <empty> on 11/14/2006 3:12:07 PM

Only several hours a month?
 Commented by <empty> on 10/11/2006 3:06:58 PM

What other SharePoint developers are writing AJAX applications? I'd love to compare notes.
 Commented by <empty> on 10/7/2006 12:46:27 PM