In an upgrade to one of its core technologies, the
OpenAjax Alliance, an industry group formed to boost interoperability in the AJAX space, on Monday is offering OpenAjax Hub 2.0, featuring capabilities for secure interaction between JavaScript widgets.
The Hub 2.0 specification defines standardized JavaScript APIs for secure mashups and offers cross-vendor interoperability among mashup tools and components. It isolates third-party widgets in secure sandboxes and mediates messages between widgets using a security manager.
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"You want to make sure that the widgets themselves are secure and you want the ability, for example, to be able to turn off one widget from communicating with all the other widgets if it misbehaves," said David Boloker, chairman of the alliance's steering committee and chief technical officer in the emerging Internet technology group at IBM.
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AJAX widget security enabled | Developer World - InfoWorld
08-31-2009
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