An easy to use and powerful AJAX framework with event processing. Prototypejs is the base AJAX framework for script.aculo.us, which then integrates with other web development environments like Ruby On Rails, perl, PHP etc.

Visit www.prototypejs.org for more information about prototypejs. You can view some great screencast tutorials about using prototypejs at www.peepcode.com which explain in great detail how to create event driven AJAX applications using prototypejs.

Attached below are some example html pages that use prototypejs and oecgi2.exe to create dynamic web 2.0 content.

The AJAX is triggered by events that occur in the HTML pages, like a click on a link, or an onBlur (lostfocus for us OI developers) on a text input control, so this is similar to the event processing in OpenInsight forms, and should be easily understood by OpenInsight developers.

The examples assume that you have OECGI2.EXE installed and configured to access the EXAMPLES application. Attached are two white papers explaining how to install and configure OECGI2 and the OESocketServer service. OECGI2.EXE was introduced in OpenInsight V7.1.

These examples would also work well with OECGI.EXE, which was released with OpenInsight 3.7x and above, but you will need to edit the HTML pages and replace OECGI2.EXE with OECGI.EXE, and install and configure OECGI.EXE. See the OpenInsight help files for more information on installing and configuring OECGI.EXE. It is recomended to use OECGI2.EXE though.

There are two simple OpenInsight procedures to install and compile into the EXAMPLES application (source code included). Apart from that, these examples are using the standard OpenInsight EXAMPLES application.

The HTML pages have been designed to work in nearly all browers, even those that do not support javascript. But, of course, for non-javascipt enabled browsers, the AJAX event processing does not work. The pages will still work, and act as traditional HTML pages, where the whole page will be refreshed.

The examples should work on most web servers. They have been tested on Microsoft IIS server (Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server) and apache.

Please see the readme.txt file contained in the zip file below for more information on setup and running the examples.