Atlas Opinions

[spmva]

I'm taking full advantage of the "General Discussion" forum with this one. :-)

Does anyone have any thoughts on Atlas? I've been playing around with it a bit and love what it does for the user experience. The trouble is that I'm not sure what it will do for my experience. I have a very large application that will not benefit by becoming a mess of Javascript and lines of declarative code. I also wonder about things like losing step-through debugging in exchange for random browser and Javascript errors. And what about localization from resource files on the server? I'm sure there are a whole host of other things to consider...I just don't know what they are yet.

I get a feeling that there is a hybrid model combining both client-side and server-side code. I just don't know what that model should be and I've been unable to locate the appropriate resources.

The Atlas web site is very Microsoft propagandaish and blogs from former Microsoft senior engineers don't seem to approach the issues I mention above. I thought I might get some independent thought here.

Best regards,

Steve

[Aleks Seovic]

I haven't played much with Atlas, but out of the Ajax tools I did play with Anthem.NET is by far the one that best fits into Spring.NET apps.

There is an integration with it and it is being used by SpringAir2 to perform data validation, as well as process flow, using Ajax.

- Aleks

[spmva]

I liked what I saw in Spring.Air2 with Anthem.NET. The process flow demonstration was excellent.

Steve