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.

Laurent Ribardière’s comment at 4D Summit about avoiding triggers may make sense from a technical standpoint, but not from a business perspective. The take away should be to minimize the use of triggers - don’t avoid them unless it suits your business needs.

4D Live Window is a plug in for 4D which allows you to display the contents of a web page on a form in a 4D application. Sounds like a great idea, but there are a lot of things you need to know to implement Live Window successfully.

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.