BadgerFish is a convention for translating an XML document into a JSON object. Once you’ve got your XML document represented as a JSON object, it’s easy to manipulate from within Javascript. If you’re familiar with PHP’s SimpleXML extension, think of BadgerFish as aiming for a similar goal: making it simpler to do common manipulations of XML documents with a predictable structure.

Website: http://badgerfish.ning.com/

Speech recognition with AJAX, ajax + css for low resolution displays and ajax + css for pattern matching / hand writing recognition

Website: http://bosky101.blogspot.com/2006/04/presenting-ajacss-ajax-css.html

Asynchronous JavaScript with XML(AJAX) is emerging as a hot technology. The Java BluePrints is helping by providing an early access set of AJAX components for Java EE. These components are built using JavaServer Faces technology.

Website: https://blueprints.dev.java.net/ajaxcomponents.html

ajaxTunes is a web-based media player that lets you play, pause, forward and rewind high-quality streaming music straight from the Internet on any computer.

Website: http://www.ajaxtunes.com/

This is a simple example to demonstrate how to display a Google Map using Ruby on Rails, including utilizing a geocoding web service to translate addresses to geocodes.

Website: http://www.earthcode.com/ajax/2006/04/rails_geocoding_and_google_map.html

Based on the AJAX-Comet paradigm it streams real-time data to an HTML browser without the need to download or install anything on the client, updating the changed data on the screen without reloads. It can also enliven any traditional thick client application with streaming data through client APIs.

Website: http://www.lightstreamer.com/

Scriptaculous is one of many great new JavaScript libraries created to answer the call for well written ‘Web 2.0′ JavaScript libraries. Written by Thomas Fuchs, scriptaculous has many features that can be used in AJAX-ified applications, drag-and-drop effects, and a whole slew of visual effects. The drag-and-drop effects, most notably the sortables, caught my eye because the look great, they are so easy to implement, and they’re just so much nicer than the standard listbox with up/down arrows that we see in most of today’s applications and administration tools.

Website: http://www.gregphoto.net/sortable/index.php

With the increasingly popular AJAX paradigm, a browser page can make requests for server data in the background while the user interface continues to be active in the foreground (hence the “asynchronous” in AJAX). However, the problem exists that these two activities are typically accessing common JavaScript and DOM data structures simultaneously.

Website: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/04/05/ajax-mutual-exclusion.html

In the coming months we will see a new wave of Rich Internet Applications that will blend the web application and the desktop application in exciting new ways. There are three technologies on the horizon that will change the way people use the web: LaszloSystems’ OpenLaszlo, Microsoft’s WinFX (codename Avalon) and Adobe’s Flex 2.

Website: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rich_internet_a.php

This class is based on Prototype 1.5. The code is inspired of the powerful script.aculo.us library. You can even use all script.aculo.us effects to show and hide windows if you include effects.js file.

Website: http://blogus.xilinus.com/pages/javawin