Published on 2006-04-04 12:13:17
From Desktop to Web, AJAX have made a great progress by providing powerful web applications such text processors, spreadsheets, webmail ... but sometimes you'll need to create documents using different kind of objects such images, text, charts, spreadsheet ...etc. things you can do in desktop for example using the Windows OLE by embding component from an application to another.
Zimbra ALE, Ajax Linking and Embedding, provides the ability to embed and edit rich content into a browser document in much the same way that an end user may do so in a traditional desktop environment. The difference is that instead of embedding objects that are backed by installed desktop applications, the embedded objects are AJAX components that adhere to a key set of design patterns. For example, if a user is composing an email message, then they will be able to embed a spreadsheet into the email. The spreadsheet will be implemented as an AJAX components adhering to the ALE design pattern. Since it is an ALE component it will be fetched across the network so that it may be instantiated and used regardless of the user’s location.
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