Steve Heron will be talking about webcentric. The best way to describe webcentric is probably to say that its a lightweight, client-side portal framework. To give you a bit of background, it?s a framework that I've played with since the days of IE5, so its far from new. Until about 3 years ago, it was a little more than a testing ground for ideas in JavaScript programming - OO techniques, functional programming experiments, continuation passing style, that sort of thing. Since the whole Ajax thing started to take off, Steve has been gradually transforming webcentric from sprawling experiment to coherent application framework - how successful he has been he will leave for others to judge :-)
Steve will be launching webcentric version 2.0 in August 2008 - Webcentric 1.0 is already in production use in a number of Investment banks, primarily through the work of Caplin Systems (the 'real-time web company'). Steve has licensed webcentric to Caplin who use it as the basis for their CaplinTrader trading platform.
It isn't Steve's intention to do a half hour sales-pitch - rather to cover a number of architectural features of the framework that will interest javascript' focussed friends, so that'll be the focus of this talk.
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