Wednesday, 9/19/07
A demonstration the Microsystem Technology Laboratories new registration form which uses Spring Web Flow.

Wednesday, 6/27/2007

Our second meeting was held on 6/27 in the W92 Back Bay A conference room (the same room we were in last time). There were presentations on the following topics:

• Building Web services using Apache Axis. The presentation is available in Powerpoint or text format and also the documentation tree.
• MIT specific Web services, including (for more information about these service, contact ISDA)
  • Geo Location Service: A SOAP web service to provide two features: mapping domestic and international addresses to a geographic location code and computing the distance between two Geo Codes.
  • MIT ID Service: Search for existing ID numbers and generate new ID numbers.

Wednesday, 5/30/2007

We had our first meeting on Wednesday, 5/30 from noon - 1pm in W92 (near the end of Vassar Street, across from the Hyatt). We had presentations on:

• AJAX using DWR
• MAP, the MIT Application Platform that uses the SASH stack (Spring, Axis, Struts, & Hibernate)

A few related links:

• DWR
• Google Web Toolkit
• ICEfaces (another AJAX tool mentioned after meeting)
• Pragmatic AJAX (book)
• ISDA SSO
• Acegi Security

You can download the example war file for the AJAX/DWR demo. You should be able to pop it into the webapps directory of your tomcat installation to see it in action. You can also extract the files to view the source code, which is included.