Here’s an intersting set of slides from from the Berlin.JAR conference (English version, in PDF, here). The idea is that much of the current complex computation that happens in Java on the back end can be moved out to JavaScript in the browser. Java would still be needed for the core business logic, but much of the overhead of the Web framework would be swept away. The idea is not new — under the names SOFEA and SOUI, it’s been around for over a year — but I find it fascinating nonetheless, because so darn much of the energy in the Java Web developement community seems to be about what Web framework you should use, how frameworks can work together, and so on. Something that promises to sweep all that away could radically remake how we think about Java Web development. It won’t sit will with those a little suspicious of the Web 2.0 buzzwords, though. Software Development