Techno Babble

The Ajax View proxy provides the ability for remotely monitoring client-side wep application performance and behaviour.

This is currently an early research prototype available from Microsoft Research.

The Ajax View project at Microsoft Research aims to give developers easy visibility into their web apps’ performance and behavior as the apps run in end-users’ browsers. Ajax View uses a server-side proxy to rewrite JavaScript “on-the-fly” and automatically inject instrumentation code into a web application. This instrumentation provides end-to-end visibility into app performance, behavior and critical state. “On-the-fly” rewriting allows Ajax View to serve different instrumentation across users and over time, capturing more detail about app behavior while minimizing per-user performance overhead.

Find out all the details at

http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ajaxview/

An article in CADCAMNet by Randall S Newton (21 September 2006) asks the question:

When will analysis tools be available as desktop widgets?

and quotes SimXpert from MSC. SimXpert is part of the MD Nastran offering, SimEnterprise from MSC Software.

Based on a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), SimEnterprise enables open connectivity between designers, analysts, and other simulation stakeholders for a highly collaborative design ecosystem, allowing each stakeholder to work within their preferred environments. With SimEnterprise, product development stakeholders, regardless of application preference or global location, can easily collaborate and manage simulation and simulation-based design information to accelerate product development in a highly cost-efficient manner.

Here’s some links:

SimXpert Press Release

SimXpert

Seems as though they are looking to provide an SOA for Analysis products.

AfterCAD Software Inc recently claimed to have introduced the First True AJAX based CAD application.

http://www.aftercad.com/

AfterCAD InSite is a server application that organizes and serves CAD drawings to anyone with a web browser.

InSite serves up 2D and 3D CAD data in the same way that Google Map data is served to users.

The software reads the CAD data and converts it into raster tiles, viewing the drawing (in a Web browser) simply displays the tiles. The need for a multitude of plugins for viewing the CAD data (which could be in a variety of formats) is eliminated and the user can zoom and pan about the image from their Web browser.(I guess this is a good approach for viewing images on mobile phones and other small handheld devices)

The company have applied for a patent on the technology, which is not restricted to CAD data and could be applied to any raster image.