A talk was given at the NYC4D meeting on 19 March 2008 by Julien Feason with input from Add Komoncharoensiri and Rudi Pšeničnik - software engineers at 4D, Inc. They went over the new version of 4D’s Ajax framework with Data Grid 2.0.

4D will be releasing a Flex library that allows direct SQL access to 4D databases. This presents interesting options for 4D developers working on Web 2.0 applications.

I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw of the 4D Ajax framework at 4D Summit. For certain applications it’s extremely powerful, and the “no code” admin tool is a lot better than you might imagine.

The ‘bridge’ portion of the 4D Ajax framework can be integrated with a variety of other Ajax frameworks. Lee Hinde showed the 4D framework working with jQuery and discussed the issues and challenges this type of programming entails.