Ajax has the power to make your applications satisfying and beautiful or painful and frustrating. This talk shows how Dojo can help you create amazingly beautiful user experiences and how DWR brings the beauty to Java by making Java and JavaScript work well together.
Both Dojo and DWR have changed a lot in the last 2 years. Dojo now has a theming system, many new widgets, and great documentation. DWR can now synchronize data between the server and multiple clients, you can implement Java interfaces with JavaScript, and call both ways between Java and JavaScript.
Joe Walker is lead developer of the DWR framework, and Director of Support and Development at Sitepen UK. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and is author of Ajax in Practice by Manning.
Nikolai is co-founder of the Munich based IT company Uxebu, specialized in front-end development, training and consulting. He graduated from the Hogeschool of Amsterdam and has been active in several open source projects since 1998. Nikolai is committer of the Dojo Toolkit, official Dojo community evangelist, co-founder of DojoCampus.org (the no. 1 Dojo related community site), and blogging for several front-end related blogs. When not being busy with anything around and about the web he dedicates his time to his family, composing and making music.
