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Tony Issakov has written up a nice conceptual article on how Aptana Jaxer can simplify certain tasks of dojo and dijit development. He starts with a simple case of how Jaxer can enable simplified server-side dijit markup, then expands the ideas to JSF, JSTL, and templates. Tony explains: "Once upon a time dojo had markup ability using custom tags. This was pulled because as it turns out, some browsers just scrap tags they don't understand. One browser that did support tags of a non HTML nature though was Mozilla and in turn we get this freedom back via Jaxer." For example: <div dojoType="dijit.form.button" label="test"></div> can become... <dijit type="button" label="test2"></dijit>

Here's some picks from the blogoshpere, We have a real nice write up on using MySQL with Jaxer from the viewpoint of a php developer, penned by our own inimitable Ian Selby. JavaScript & MySQL, A nice insight into accessing the wonderful world of Java from Jaxer by Joe Walker Jaxer to Java, and some coverage of our our recent RadRails 1.0 release.

Lee Provoost at Capgemini just learned about Jaxer, and he's challenging us to set up a Jaxer Pet Shop. OK, that's the kind of challenge we love, so of course we'll take him up on it. Especially because we don't want his heart to stop beating for too long:

"Yesterday, I bought a new Apple computer and I was happily installing and configuring my Eclipse environment and of course the must-have for every web-developer: Aptana! One of the big problems with JavaScript and Ajax programming is that there are barely good development environments. Syntax highlighting can be handled by most IDEs, but when it comes to complex code completion and assistance, nothing can beat Aptana as far as I know. You can either install it standalone or as an Eclipse plugin. So I surfed to the website of Aptana to get my plugin, but suddenly I stumbled on Aptana Jaxer. What caught my I was the following sentence: “Jaxer, The world’s first Ajax server”. My heart stopped beating, my whole (young) life passed by and I was thinking: "gosh, I thought I’ve seen it all…""

In fact we're thinking of building two pet shops (neither of which will ever sell any real pets unless they're of the Tamagotchi variety, btw):

1. One that's end-to-end Ajax, showing how much simpler it is to develop Ajax apps when you can stay in one paradigm, and giving some ideas of how to architect full-fledged Jaxer apps;
2. And one that's built on top of a Java Pet Shop, perhaps leveraging the DWR integration to Java we're now working on, to show how you can easily have the best of both worlds: the strength of an enterprise Java app with the engaging user interaction afforded by Ajax. We'll see how you end up with increased security and a clean division of labor between business logic in Java and the user-oriented application flow in Ajax (on both client and server).

Actually, we'll probably just build the first iterations of these, and then solicit the community's help to define better application infrastructure for Jaxer. People are already working on some ORMs for Jaxer, so I'm sure there will be some exciting conversations.

Dion Almaer blogs about the latest update to his gears integration with Jaxer

Here are some blog entries posted from some of the early adopters of Jaxer.
Kritikal on Linux
Peter Svensson

When Google Gears first came out, people were excited to see simple, powerful DB access in the browser. Now with Jaxer offering Ajax on the server, there's some very interesting client-server straddling to be done...

Mark McLaren, has blogged about EXSLT in FF3 and Jaxer, he's even written some Jaxer samples.

A how to guide on integrating Jaxer with Apache Tomcat has been released.

This guide walks you through how to enable Jaxer to post-process your HTML and JSP pages for your Tomcat web applications. The tutorial includes two WAR files, one that adds support for Jaxer callbacks on your Tomcat pages and the other includes samples on possible ways to integrate Jaxer with your JSP/HTML pages.

Jaxer also has a connector available for the Jetty HTTP server which is used inside Aptana Studio.

Jaxer lets you use your full stack of Ajax technologies — HTML, JavaScript, DOM manipulation, XHR, etc. — on the server, to make web application development a lot smoother and more natural.