Nexaweb Contributes dojo.E to Dojo Foundation

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Open Source Ajax Gains Enterprise Momentum with dojo.E Contribution from Nexaweb

Burlington, MA - June 3, 2008 - Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. today announced it has contributed new software to the Dojo Foundation that will further advance the use of open source Ajax within a company’s critical business applications. The software, dubbed ‘dojo.E,’ will allow users to more easily create enterprise web applications based on the Dojo Toolkit, one of the industry’s most advanced set of open source Ajax tools.

Ajax, while powerful, has not been as quickly adopted among the enterprise development community largely due to its unstructured nature. dojo.E addresses this need with a structured, declarative XML way to add Ajax into web applications without having to rewrite HTML code.

Nexaweb is contributing dojo.E to the Dojo Foundation to support the foundation’s mission of providing an infrastructure for open source Ajax development. The combination of the Dojo Toolkit and dojo.E will significantly reduce the development time and costs of building enterprise web applications without requiring developers master JavaScript or Ajax or rebuild applications from scratch.

“With the support of industry leaders including IBM, Sun and Nexaweb, it’s clear that dojo is taking a larger role in the enterprise,” said Dylan Schiemann, co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit and CEO of SitePen. “Since many members of the Dojo community have been interested in bringing XML to Dojo, dojoE is a major step forward that will further expand the use of dojo among enterprise application and software developers.”

dojo.E tools include dojo.E Markup and dojo.E Runtime (http://dojoe.nexaweb.com). dojo.E Markup brings extensible markup language (XML) into Dojo components so that developers have a clear understanding of how information will be interpreted and displayed on the page. dojo.E Runtime provides a programmatic and declarative means for executing the Document Object Model (DOM), an application programming interface that defines the logical structure and display of documents. Using dojo.E Runtime, developers have a more definitive way for executing the DOM page modifications as the user interacts with the elements being displayed on the screen.

“As Ajax adoption grows and the industry further embraces open source, we will continue to see tremendous leaps in innovation and architecture as a result of a community oriented approach to software development,” said Jeremy Chone, chief technology officer, Nexaweb. “We will continue to contribute to the Dojo Foundation with enterprise-style widgets, tooling and additional XML constructs that will simplify the development and maintenance of dynamic enterprise web applications.”

About Nexaweb
Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of application development, deployment and modernization solutions for the productivity-driven enterprise. With Nexaweb, building contextual and process-driven composite and rich Internet applications (RIA) that consume legacy, SOA and 3rd party data is simple and doesn’t require re-writing code. Founded in 2000 and rooted in the MIT community, Nexaweb’s solutions are proven by more than 7,000 successful global deployments that span the financial services, manufacturing, insurance, public sector, and ISV markets. The company is privately held and funded by institutional investors. For more information, visit www.nexaweb.com or call (781) 345-5500. Nexaweb and the Nexaweb logo are registered trademarks of Nexaweb, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. No use of a third-party mark is to be construed to mean such mark’s owner endorses Nexaweb products or services.

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Kathleen Keating
Nexaweb Technologies
781-345-5449
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