bill braasch

Speaking Sessions

• a briefing on itemscript: a system for building loosely-coupled declarative applications using JSON

  2:15 PM Sunday   Room: 4301

  <b>Itemscript</b> is a set of standards and tools for building declarative JSON applications and working with JSON data. <br> <br> <b>Itemscript</b> is a JSON schema definition language. <b>Itemscript JAM</b> (JSON application markup) is a declarative provisioning language based on Itemscript. The <b>Item Lens</b> is a Javascript animator for Itemscript JAM, and the <b>Item Store</b> is a simple JSON data store. <br><br> This presentation introduces the Itemscript system and philosophy, the <b>Itemscript JAM</b> language, and the <b>Item Lens</b> animator. <br><br> We'll share what we've learned about collaborative, iterative development using the declarative Itemscript system. <br><br> Itemscript can be adopted to enrich or document existing applications. It can also be used to describe a loosely coupled application model that's dynamic, with hot swappable components. <br><br> We'll demonstrate <b>Item Hash</b>, a rich web application built using the Item Lens (built on GWT) and the Item Store (built on Apache Derby). We'll share what we've learned about iterative development with itemscript. <br><br> Of interest to: Web developers looking for a declarative language for AJAX applications; Java & GWT developers looking for a way to build dynamic applications; developers working with JSON looking for ideas on how to go beyond the capabilities of basic JSON. <br><br> Presentation slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/itemscript/itemscript-at-silicon-valley-code-camp