The Ajax developers at MB Technologies have been busy, and now have posted three new products on their Web site: a Bindows gauges library toolkit, BindowsFaces, and the Bindows 4.0 Beta. The Bindows gauges library toolkit (of which some sample images are at left) is completely free, and comes with a gauge wizard and a free subset of the Bindows Ajax library. The actual gauges are done with vector graphics and ar The Bindows gauges library toolkit (of which some sample images are at left) is completely free, and comes with a gauge wizard and a free subset of the Bindows Ajax library. The actual gauges are done with vector graphics and are fast enough to be used for soft real-time displays. Try it out online yourself. Did I mention that it’s free?The BindowsFaces library, as you might guess from the name, brings Bindows-based Ajax capabilities to Java through JSF. It’s for Java Faces programmers who’d prefer not to get their hands dirty with JavaScript or go through a compilation step. According to Ran and Yoram Meriaz, who demonstrated these products for me prior to the launch, BindowsFaces “is better than GWT or Oracle ADF.” Obviously, they’re biased, but it does look interesting. They say that the technology used to create BindowsFaces could now be used to marry other server technologies to the Bindows client libraries. BindowsFaces is a new component of Bindows 4.0. The Bindows 4.0 beta “probably makes Bindows the most advanced professional Ajax framework in the market,” according to the Meriazes. Again, take that cum grano salis, but the primary design goal of Bindows 4.0 is to add the “ability to define a fully working application without writing a single line of JavaScript.” To join the 4.0 beta program, contact sales@bindows.net. Software Development