developerWorks: SashXB Lends Mini-RAD to Linux

” While SashXB is not appropriate for all software projects, it
is perfect for small- to medium-sized network client applications.
Targeted at Web developers with HTML and JavaScript skills who want
to write full-featured native applications, as well as experienced
programmers who’d appreciate the convenience of rapid application
development, SashXB is an open source application environment that
exposes native functionality to JavaScript. It speeds the
development process by encapsulating system calls, existing
libraries, and other code in easily accessible ‘extensions,’ which
are accessible as JavaScript objects. Low-level details are hidden
from application developers, who only need to learn APIs for the
new objects.

“After briefly sketching out the SashXB architecture and
detailing some of its important components, we will look at several
applications and step through some sample code…”

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