OpenLaszlo Web Applications

One of the neat new applications I am getting the opportuniyt to play with (thanks to one of my clients), is OpenLaszlo. OpenLaszlo is a web application framework that provides an asynchronous web application framework which is not based on AJAX. OpenLaszlo is a Tomcat based Java app, which provides a very rich XML based (looks like html) programming language, which allows you to generate Flash based "Asynchronous Flash and XML" (AFAX?) applications. Some of the bonuses are better animation and graphical capabilities.

The drawback is the need to support a Tomcat install on top of your Apache instance, but that is not so bad, since the OpenLaszlo package is SO GOOD. There is even a beta quality IDE for eclipse! My current job is writing an embedded video player which will play movies described in an RSS feed. I have already written a bridge to allow Typo3 to generate and compile Laszlo scripts.