Gbo4ajax-ajax Globalization Interface Component Library

As the dawn of Internet, globalization has become a key factor of business. Software globalization is always improving by the time, many supporting and helpful globalization standards and toolkits are developed. GBO (Global Business Object) developed by IBM is such a globalization library, which aimed at providing reusable globalization UI widgets for J2EE web tie application. The design architecture of GBO is briefly described in this paper as a background.Web technologies have developed for decades, now a new generation of Web technology, which is named as RIA (Rich Internet Application), uses a new application model to provide much better user experiences. Ajax is one of the most popular RIA implementing techniques. There are dozens of libraries providing Ajax support;however, the globalization of Ajax application especially the globalization of UI in Ajax application is lacked. While existing globalization libraries (Such as ICU, Java Internationalization API, and GBO) are designed to support server side programming model, there is no one, which could be utilized in client side Ajax application. Based on these observations, we propose a new client side UI widget library GBO4Ajax. It leverages the capability of server side GBO and providing globalization widgets for Ajax application.GBO4Ajax addresses the problem of lacking Globalization UI widget library in Ajax. Further more, by extending the application of GBO to Ajax platform, GBO4Ajax also demonstrates the method of utilizing functionalities of existing server-side libraries to help client-side Ajax(and other RIA) applications.