Laszlo goes J2EE
Holy smokes! Laszlo Systems’s OpenLaszlo rich Internet application platform is now deployable on a J2EE server!
My previous development team had tried installing it on a development server but didn’t like the idea of Tomcat and JRun fighting each other to the death, so we had nixxed the idea. But now OpenLaszlo can be deployed on JRun (or any other J2EE server) as a WAR file, enabling it to live happily with the other J2EE-based apps.
For those of you who don’t know what OpenLaszlo is, it’s a development platform that allows you to create Flash-based RIAs without opening the Flash authoring tool. Applications get generated by an XML-based scripting language and run on Flash player. Think of it as a free, open source competitor to Macromedia’s Flex. Very nice, considering Macromedia recently raised the price of Flex, which was already expensive to begin with.