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Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] SWT thread in managed runtimes
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Mike Wilson schrieb:
Since there are no threads on the web...
If that's true, what does this mean:
"...the founders of Ajaxian.com discuss the latest developments,
including multithreaded JavaScript technology-powered UIs..."
Hard to tell by just reading the talk description. There is currently
only one technology, which allows real multi-threading in AJAX
applications: the Google Gears worker pools
<http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_workerpool.html>. But these
worker pools are quite limited (e.g. no access to the DOM) and only work
with the gears plugin installed.
There are some pure JavaScript approaches, which try to provide at least
cooperative multi threading but they all require preprocessing.
Interesting projects in this area are:
- Narrative JavaScript by Neil Mix
<http://www.neilmix.com/narrativejs/doc/>: Adds blocking capabilities to
remove all the callbacks from the control flow. Add custom language
extensions and compiles it to plain JavaScript
- Strands by Kris Zyp <http://www.xucia.com/strands-doc/index.html>:
Uses the "yield" operator present in FireFox 2 to achieve cooperative
multithreading and "pseudo"-blocking for asynchronous events. Strands
can transform the code containing the yield statement into JavaScript
code without yield statements.
There are some more projects I don't remember right now.
The basic problem these projects want to solve is that once you are
asynchonous e.g. by calling the server, you have to stay asyncronous in
the whole call stack. There is no way of synchronization or blocking for
an event. You really have to be careful to not clutter the API with all
those callback parameters, otherwise the control flow of the application
will be very hard to understand and debug.
I guess this will be a hot topic in bringing SWT to the browser.
Best Fabian
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Fabian Jakobs
JavaScript Framework Developer
1&1 Internet AG
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76135 Karlsruhe
Amtsgericht Montabaur HRB 6484
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