Echo3
During 2007, development on a third generation of the framework, Echo3, began. The focus of this evolution was to move away from generating markup on the server side, and instead to implement rendering peers as native Javascript objects, with an XML-based state synchronization protocol between client (web browser) and server. This was developed in tandem with a core javascript framework, providing the ability to define inheritance hierarchies in Javascript in a way familiar to developers of object-oriented languages.
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