Atlas without ASP.NET

I have observed that Atlas has a strong dependency to ASP.NET.
All Atlas controls have the form of ASP.NET components.

Could I use functionality of Atlas without using ASP.NET?

More precisely I would like to take advantage of Atlas rich UI features but use a server with no ASP.NET support (Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic etc) and without using ASP.NET at all.

Is it possible? If yes how?

Please assist.

Hi,

and welcome to the ASP.NET forums.

I read on a blog last weekend that at Mix06 there was a demo by just using the script libraries to interact with PHP pages that ran on an Apache server. Unfortunately I could find the presentation or sample code at that time.

Grz, Kris.

hello.

well, i think it's fair to say taht atlas is divided into 2 parts: client side and server side. Most of the client side features can be used in non-asp.net pages. for instance, you can use the OO abstractions to build better javascript objects. You can also use the atlas elements that wrap the controls and i think that you can also use most of the behaviors.

i also think that you can call web services if their return value is formatted according to the JSON rules.

so, if you want to reuse the client side of the atlas, you should only need to add the necessary jscript files to your pages and you should be ok :)