Backbase AJAX Library
March 19th, 2006
Introducing Backbase, a 3-year-old company that develops and sells great AJAX applications. Like 37Signals, they too have released a Community Edition of their framework. Beyond great asynchronous capability, they've got some pretty sweet objects demonstrated by their drag-and-drop shop, directory explorer, RSS reader, office locator, and more.
For those of you who have seen the script.aculo.us drag-and-drop shopping cart example, this one is much more complete.
UPDATE: This is not an open-source solution as indicated by digg.com. Sucks for them!
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March 20th, 2006 at 18:57 PM
Not only is it not open source. It is not licensed for commercial usage without a very expensive license (almost $2000 per year per cpu). I think I am sticking with Prototype and Dojo. I would prefer to spend $2000 improving the current open source options then give it to a closed product.
March 20th, 2006 at 19:51 PM
Just thought that I'd go ahead and second what Supernerd said. Why spend $2k on this when you could spend that making something better that will help everyone? Not to mention, what's here doesn't look that much better than what you find elsewhere...The RSS reader seems to have duplicates of everything.
March 20th, 2006 at 20:03 PM
Backbase is a rip off, they have nice objects and display, but it's not true opensource.
March 21st, 2006 at 00:16 AM
So basically you're saying everything in life should be free and for the greater good of everyone? If thats so, then in this 'perfect world' of yours, why would anyone be remotely interested in doing anything, if everything was free and anything you created had to be shared with everyone else? Sounds like the lie of Socialism to me...
March 21st, 2006 at 00:48 AM
It really has nothing to do with the fact you charge for i (and so much for it). It's the fact that your trying to sell something that is easily found for free; it's like trying to sell an application that says "Hello World" Drag & Drop is easy, so is reading in an RSS feed.. You shouldn provide this lib for free and charge for support.. cause the only people that are going to use this are people who can't do it on there own anyways and will need some help. :-) Nice graphics though..lol
March 20th, 2006 at 21:15 PM
Man these comments... basically along the lines of "I want companies to give me everything they develop for free! Commercial stuff sucks!" Developers need to eat too, you know.
March 21st, 2006 at 01:01 AM
The first few commenters weren't saying 'everything in life should be free.' In fact, no where did they say that. If the only argument for using Backbase is "developers need to eat too, you know", then Backbase is certainly in the wrong market. They should move to the USSR and live under socialist rule. Oh wait, that social experiment didn't work out so well, did it.
March 21st, 2006 at 01:10 AM
OpenSource != Socialism. Sure, Backbase have every right to sell a product they develop. Nobody's saying Backbase should give away their work, just that others have already given similar work to the community. If I offered you a free recipe for excellent cookies, Backbase would need a significantly better/different/unique recipe to justify charging for something I give to you gratis. This isn't socialism: in fact, it's an excellent example of a free market.
March 21st, 2006 at 12:52 PM
yeah.. 2K is a heavy price.. i can a whole site done for 2K at scriptlance
March 21st, 2006 at 15:28 PM
I've been developing a js library and am currently integrating an ajax module some effects, some bits and some pieces to it. I am giving it uncommercially free, and will deliver it uncommercially free. And it is almost free for commercial use as well. I too have been working on the API for about three years. And I consider myself expert enough, on the field of JavaScript, DOM, cross-browser issues, usability and accessibility. Having said that, I really am unsure how an XmlHttpRequest wrapper along with some server-side bits and pieces cost more than many of the boxed graphical processing applications around where a few dozen year effort of a tens of people are put into. Best,
March 21st, 2006 at 15:31 PM
I'm intrigued by Ajax library. I may just give it a try :) Keep up the good work, Backbase --- http://www.wirah.com
April 1st, 2006 at 20:44 PM
Very nice interface (the RSS reader has a clever GUI)
April 11th, 2006 at 05:54 AM
open source is the future. services are the future. thanks for trying backbase, but your libs are too expensive for me to care. check out morfik.com, they said they'd give that away for free, it's an Ajax ide. They're gonna make all their money from building apps with the IDE they built, but they will need the opensource community to debug it and this is a nice 2 way relationship.
April 14th, 2006 at 17:39 PM
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September 1st, 2006 at 02:54 AM
I don't think you CAN FIND a FREE product that does what Backbase does, Prototype and DOJO don't really cut it, have you scene the amount of things that backbase can do? Obviously not. Morfik is cool, but it has it's own server, doesn't support well known scripting languages such as PHP, ASP.net or Python. I don't see MORFIK beeing around for very long since they have the same business model as all the early dot coms, give it away and we'll make it up in volume. If anything it will be another unsupported platform in a few years.
October 1st, 2006 at 01:13 AM
there definitly needs to be some middle ground here.... start charging realistic prices, and you see the progress sky-rocket.... If the song "happy birthday to you..." became proprietary, would you feel insulted that you would have to pay fifty thousand dollars to the patent owner to have a copy of the song? Or would you simply download the torrent, citing the fact that you never would have had fifty thousand dollars in the first place, and hey isnt this a basic part of human culture.....all should have it for free... whats next charging sky-gazing tax.... "because promiscuity is a citizens duty" "A gram in time saves nine" "A grams better than a dam" "I couldn't bear to procure things for no cost" "Aren't I lucky to be a delta..."
July 9th, 2007 at 17:32 PM
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April 17th, 2008 at 05:10 AM
Great big brother quotes airtonix ;)
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