Open AJAX: taking Ajax mainstream
“The project, called Open Ajax, aims to create a single framework that standardizes development and debugging on a common library of Ajax widgets that could run on multiple Ajax runtimes.”
The goal of OAJAX (Open Ajax), is to create a framework that standardizes development and debugging of a common library of widgets, that can run with multiple Ajax runtimes. Really it means having a standard set of widgets for use in the Eclipse development environment. It is neat to see the convergence anyway.
Besides IBM, there are several players already pledging their endorsement: BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla, Novell, Oracle, Openwave, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend, Zimbra and Google.
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=97D640A5-48E2-4078-A131-D7256CA376DC
Libraries: That is a ton of them!
I was thinking of writing a post that tried to highlight the countless number of Javascript Library/Frameworks available. A very daunting task for sure.
Turns out, somebody has already done it: http://edevil.wordpress.com/2005/11/14/javascript-libraries-roundup/.
I have used several of them mentioned, including Prototype, Rico, Behavior, Scriptaculous and AJAX.NET.
Be sure to check them out. You never know how easy it may be to implement something in one of your projects.
Library: Prototype
As far as Javascript frameworks go, it really is hard to beat Prototype by Sam Stephenson. Dubbed as a “framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications”, Prototype is quickly becoming the library of choice for Web 2.0 developers.
Several prominent web projects, currently rely on, or are heavily based on Prototype:
* Look for reviews on each of these libraries very soon…
Although, AJAX is not the primary goal of the Prototype framework, it certainly has a very nice implementation. And through JavaScript classes, it also makes extended in your own projects, a piece of cake (relatively speaking of course).
Prototype is available here: http://prototype.conio.net
