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AJAX and Java frameworks
Rachel Chalmers, May 17, 2006 @ 2:48 pm ETNot quite open source, but open-source-adjacent: I am taking over The 451 Group’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) coverage from my colleague Tony Rizzo. I caught up with Nexaweb and ICEsoft today at JavaOne, and I’m looking to touch base with Backbase, JackBe, and Laszlo Systems. Who am I missing? Have any readers compared these frameworks, and if so, what did you come up with? This space looks like a new incarnation of the J2EE application frameworks I covered back at the beginning of 2003 – companies like M7, which ended up inside BEA, and AltoWeb and Wakesoft, which folded. Better luck this time around!
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Keep your eyes on The Dojo Toolkit, which is now under the care of The Dojo Foundation. Laszlo is working with them on its DHTML rendering for OpenLaszlo (press release).
Google is announcing the release of the Google Web Toolkit at JavaOne.
There’s also the Open Ajax Initiative, xuiframework, Rico, and the Eclipse ATF project.
AjaxWorld is coming up in October, the related magazine from Sys-Con, and richclients.org.
Oh, and Adobe via the Macromedia acquisition…and TIBCO’s General Interface.
Adobe’s Apollo stuff look’s interesting, though I haven’t examined in detail – see
http://news.google.com/news?q=adobe%20apollo&sa=N&tab=wn
Not open source either, but SAP has just done some more rich client stuff, and NetSuite’s new version (11) has Ajax features on every page. SOme ino on this in my last report on them.
Good site I found … Plan on coming back later.
Nice site I found … Plan on coming back later to spend a little time there.