IBM, Laszlo bring Internet apps to Eclipse

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IBM previously integrated Laszlo Systems' online application development tools with the open-source Eclipse server; now Big Blue is contributing that code back to the community. Software built this way can run in non-traditional places, such as inside Macromedia Flash Player. In many ways, this competes against the Microsoft-endorsed AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) approach to rich online application development. However, IBM isn't necessarily shying away from AJAX, officials said. More toolkits will follow.

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- read this InfoWorld article

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