Stefan Kleineikenscheidt on Integration Architecture and Engineering

AJAX goes Mainstream

Filed under: Web

(The acronym) AJAX is just about one year old and now goes mainstream. While Matt Raible asks whether Script.aculo.us or Dojo would be the better choice, IBM has proposed the AJAX Toolkit Framework (ATF) as a part of the Web Tools Platform (WTP) to support Dojo (amongst others).

ATF will be based on Eclipse 3.2 and WTP 1.0 and will provide professional tools like a Debugger, JavaScript editing functionality (w/ syntax validation) and a DOM inspection. They will support both J2EE/JSP and PHP. It seems that the AJAX framework markets will consolidate. And as Matt points out good marketing can make an inferior product succeed.

Update: While Matt seems to favour Script.aculo.us, Jason Carreira describes Dojo as a solid, engineered solution.

Feb 2, 2006 at 19:49 | Permalink