Echo (framework)

Echo (framework)

Echo is a web application framework that was created by the company NextApp. It originally started as a request-response web application framework that leveraged the Swing object model to improve the speed of application development. Through the use of the swing model, Echo was able to employ concepts such as components and event-driven programming that removed much of the pain of web application development.

Echo2

In late 2005, NextApp formally announced the release of their new AJAX based web application platform, "Echo2". This framework built on the concepts of Echo (well known API, total web abstraction) but delivered the additional benefit of being an AJAX environment. NextApp believed that this approach brought the framework extremely close to the capabilities of rich clients. NextApp also claimed that this reincarnation of the Echo framework provided dramatic performance, capability, and user-experience enhancements made possible by its new Ajax-based rendering engine.

Echo3

During 2007, development on a third generation of the framework, [http://echo.nextapp.com/site/echo3 Echo3] , began. The focus of this evolution was to move away from generating markup on the server side, and instead to implement rendering peers as native Javascript objects, with an XML-based state synchronization protocol between client (web browser) and server. This was developed in tandem with a [http://echo.nextapp.com/site/corejs core javascript framework] , providing the ability to define inheritance hierarchies in Javascript in a way familiar to developers of object-oriented languages.

Competitors

Echo2 is often compared to frameworks such as GWT (Google Web Toolkit) as both Echo and GWT (among others) offer a programming model that completely abstracts users from the web tier. However Echo2 differs substantially from GWT in the way it interacts with JavaScript. GWT essentially implements a subset of the Java API in Javascript, and as such, Java code is compiled to JavaScript and executed on the client side. Echo2 on the other hand, is predominately driven by the server.

Comparable frameworks include IT Mill Toolkit, Thinwire, ZK, Openlaszlo and jSeamless.

Spin offs and associated projects

Echo2 has inspired various spin off projects including:
* EchoPoint: "Next Generation" (http://echopoint.sourceforge.net), The most well known 3rd party component library for Echo2
* Cooee framework: (http://www.karora.org) A project based around Echo 2 dedicated to the furthering the development of the framework
* Echo2Struts: http://echostruts.free.fr/ A struts compatible implementation of Echo2
* Hibernate-Spring-Echo: (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hse/) An effort to provide an out of the box application framework that includes Echo2
* Google maps for Echo2: (http://zephyrsoftware.sourceforge.net/?q=googlemaps)
* Gannt Charting for Echo2: (http://sourceforge.net/projects/echo2gantt/)
* Echo2Faces: (http://sourceforge.net/projects/echo2faces/) An effort to provide XML markup for Echo2 UI layouts
* Moomba: (http://www.karora.org) A project that implements the Eclipse API for Cooee
* jZeno: (http://www.jzeno.org) A full-stack application framework that uses a highly optimized version of the original Echo framework as rendering engine.
* Aejaks: (http://aejaks.sourceforge.net) A Jacl layer on top of Echo2 to easily create rich web applications.

External links

* [http://echo.nextapp.com/site/ Echo Framework Home Page]


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