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Round-up of 50 AJAX Toolkits and Frameworks

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

The following is a compilation of all of the AJAX toolkits and frameworks that I have either reviewed or have first hand experience with and would recommend. It seem like a new AJAX toolkit or framework has come out every week or so since the term AJAX was coined a little over a year ago. As a designer and developer I find these tools invaluable in the process of rapid web development.

I welcome additions to this list. Please use the comment section to add any AJAX toolkits or frameworks you find useful. As always feedback on this post is most welcome. Thanks to all of the toolkit and framework developers!

AJAX Coldfusion Frameworks
ajaxCFC
AjaxCFC is a ColdFusion framework meant to speed up ajax application development and deployment by providing developers seamless integration between JavaScript and ColdFusion, and providing built-in functions, such as security and debugging, to quickly adapt to any type of environment and helping to overcome cross-browser compatibility problems.

CFAjax
CFAjax is the AJAX implementation for coldfusion. It makes coldfusion method calls on server directly from HTML page using JavaScript and return backs the result to the calling HTML page. CFAjax comes with simple to use JavaScript API and simple coldfusion implementation that marshal’s the response between your CF methods and HTML page. Using CFAjax you can create highly interactive websites with greater performance and usability.

JSMX
JSMX is an Ultra Lightweight - Language Agnostic - Ajax Framework. It is by far the easiest way to integrate Ajax into any Web Application. What separates JSMX from most other Ajax Frameworks is that the JSMX API runs entirely on the client and has no Server Side Components to install. Given this fact plus the fact that you can pass back JavaScript, XML, JSON, or WDDX makes JSMX a truly Universal Ajax API.

AJAX Flash Frameworks
Flex Framework:FABridge
The Flex Ajax Bridge (FABridge) is a small, unobtrusive library of code that you can insert into a Flex application, a Flex component, or even an empty SWF file to expose it to scripting in the browser. It is being released to the community under an open source license.

AJAX Java Frameworks
Echo2
Echo2 is the next-generation of the Echo Web Framework, a platform for developing web-based applications that approach the capabilities of rich clients. The 2.0 version holds true to the core concepts of Echo while providing dramatic performance, capability, and user-experience enhancements made possible by its new Ajax-based rendering engine.

Tacos
The Tacos library project provides components and ajax behaviour for the Tapestry java web application framework. Most of the functionality is based on the exceptional dojo javascript library. It's intent is to provide a library of high quality components that may be used in your tapestry application, as well as provide a core infrastructure for using ajax related logic in these and your own components and pages.

SWATO -Shift Web Application To
Swato is an opensource framework that help you develop your webapps easier via AJAX.

ThinkCAP JX - Rich Internet Applicatons with AJAX, J2EE, and Open Source
ThinkCAP's innovative 3-tier event model allows developers to us the power of the server to build interactivity either through Java or JavaScript.

WebORB
WebORB Presentation Server is a platform for developing, deploying and hosting Rich Internet Applications. Using the product developers can create advanced Internet based applications delivering ultimate user experience. Supported client applications include AJAX and Flash Remoting clients. Architecturally WebORB resides between client application and server-side components and provides connectivity between client and server sides.

ZK - Rich Web Application Framework
ZK is an open-source Web framework that enables rich UI for Web applications with no JavaScript and little programming. With event-driven feature-rich components, developing becomes as simple as programming desktops. With a markup language, desigining becomes as simple as authoring HTML.

AJAX Multi-Platform Frameworks
Rialto
Rich Internet Application Toolkit - Ajax based - Rialto (Rich Internet Application Toolkit) is ajax-based cross browser javascript widgets library. Because it is technology agnostic it can be encapsulated in JSP, JSF, .Net, Python or PHP graphic components.

Taconite - Cross Browser AJAX Framwork
Taconite is a framework that simplifies the creation of Ajax enabled Web applications. It's a very lightweight framework that automates the tedious tasks related to Ajax development, such as the creation and management of the XMLHttpRequest object and the creation of dynamic content. Taconite can be used with all modern Web browsers (Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera, and Konqueror, to name a few) and can be used with any server-side technology including Java EE and .Net, although Taconite does have its roots in Java EE.

The haXe Programming Language
The Web is evolving quickly, with different technologies needed at different places. For instance, if you want to create a website now you'll have to handle several languages, on the server side, a web language such as PHP, Perl, Ruby or Python, on the client side, Flash (ActionScript 1, 2 and now 3) and Javascript / DHTML / AJAX. The haXe programming language is uniting theses different platforms under one language.

Web Input Completion Kit
This is WICK, the Web Input Completion Kit, an evolving framework that leverages web standards such as JavaScript, DOM and CSS to facilitate textual input in form UI elements assisted by local and remote data sources. This framework strives to remain unobtrusive and preserve a form's semantics and accessibility.

AJAX .NET Frameworks
AJAX Engine
This implementation has its focus on building an AJAX Engine and Web Controls upon standard WebServices (SOAP, WSDL) on the web server instead of using a new or proprietary protocol. The benefit for that is that there is no special coding necessary for most parts of the networking infrastructure and that many aspects like caching and security of the WebService implementation can be reused.

Atlas
Atlas is a free framework for building a new generation of richer, more interactive, highly personalized standards based Web applications. This new Web development technology from Microsoft integrates client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 server-based development framework. In addition, Atlas offers you the same type of development platform for client-based Web pages that ASP.NET offers for server-based pages.

Bitkraft
Bitkraft is a CLR based (.NET) web framework that allows distributed web content to be created and served in a unique fashion. It is written in C# and compiles for operation under the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1+ or the .Mono Framework, making it portable to almost any platform.

MagicAjax
MagicAjax.NET is a free open-source framework, designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to integrate AJAX technology into their web pages, without replacing the ASP.NET controls and/or writing tons of javascript code. MagicAjax initially appeared as a codeproject article. Now it is hosted on Sourceforge and you can find the latest release at the downloads section.

MonoRail
MonoRail (former Castle on Rails) is a MVC web framework inspired on Action Pack. The Action Pack way of development is extremely productive, very intuitive and easily testable

zumiPage
zumiPage makes it easy to build rich, interactive web-based applications With zumiPage postbacks to the server are automatically captured on the client-side, and sent via an XmlHttp mechanism. Using advanced AJAX technology, combined with the unique capabilities of zumiPage to manipulate the ASP.NET framework, an extremely fast server response is executed and the user experience is very similar to well-known desktop applications.

AJAX Perl Frameworks
Catalyst
Catalyst comes with a built-in lightweight HTTP server for development purposes. This runs on any platform; you can quickly restart it to reload any changes. This server functions similarly to production-level servers, so you can use it throughout the testing process--or longer; it's a great choice if you want to deliver a self-contained desktop application. Scalability is simple, though: when you want to move on, it is trivial to switch the engine to use plain CGI, mod_perl1, mod_perl2, FastCGI, or even the Zeus web server.

CGI::Ajax
CGI::Ajax is an object-oriented module that provides a unique mechanism for using perl code asynchronously from javascript-enhanced web pages. You would commonly use CGI::Ajax in AJAX/DHTML-based web applica- tions. CGI::Ajax unburdens the user from having to write any javascript, except for having to associate an exported method with a document-defined event (such as onClick, onKeyUp, etc). Only in the more advanced implementations of a exported perl method would a user need to write any javascript.

HTML-Prototype
A group of code generators for Prototype and the script.aculous extensions.

AJAX PHP Frameworks
AjaxAC - Open-souce PHP framework for AJAX
AjaxAC is an open-source framework written in PHP, used to develop/create/generate AJAX applications. The fundamental idea behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is to use the XMLHttpRequest object to change a web page state using background HTTP sub-requests without reloading the entire page.

AJAX AGENT - helping WEB become the platform
AJAX AGENT is a very easy to use, yet very powerful open source toolkit for rapidly building AJAX or Rich Internet Applications (RIA). For the PHP version, it takes only three lines of code to invoke a remote scripting call. Remote scripting is an integral part of AJAX.

Cajax
A PHP class library for writing powerfull reloadless web user interfaces using Ajax (DHTML+server-side) stylez

CakePHP Rapid Development Framework
Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.

Flexible Ajax
Flexible Ajax is a handler to combine the remote scripting technology, also known as AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML), with a php-based backend. The AJAX Technique is best described in the wikipedia article and the original article on adaptivepath.com, giving the technique the name AJAX. Basically, Flexible Ajax is the tool to call php functions from within javascript and handle the returned values, without having to reload the entire page.

My-BIC = Easy Ajax
After tiring of over hyped ajax frameworks trying to hide the guts that make ajax programming fun I decided to share my recipe for easy to make ajax applications where you still have control over everything, but the setup of it all is handled for you. This is a basic state of mind system rather than a framework. I offer you four files and a design pattern that allows you to focus on making things happen rather than setting things up. This is designed for PHP5 but can be written for php4 if people are interested.

PAJAJ - Object Oriented AJAX Framework
What is the PAJAJ framework, it stands for (PHP Asynchronous Javascript and JSON). It is a object oriented Ajax framework written in PHP5 for development of event driven PHP web applications.

Pipeline
Pipeline is an MIT-licensed, object-oriented framework for PHP. We built it so we could build atop it, and we're hoping that you might want to do the same. It's free, the code is yours to use, so take a look.

TinyAjax - php5 Ajax library
You don't have to write any javascript, but if you want you're free to do so and you can mix as you want, use TinyAjax automatically generated code and your own existing scripts. You can also export global functions and a class-functions in the same page.

symfony - an open-source PHP5 web framework
Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.

xajax
xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Applications developed with xajax can asynchronously call server-side PHP functions and update content without reloading the page.

XOAD - PHP / AJAX framework
AJAX/XAP object oriented framework that allows you to create richer web applications.

Zoop - PHP and AJAX Development Framework
Zoop is an object oriented framework for PHP based on a front controller. It is designed to be very fast and efficient and very nice for the programmer to work with. It is easily extensible, and you need only include the functionality you use.

AJAX Python Frameworks
CherryPy
CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented web development framework. CherryPy allows developers to build web applications in much the same way they would build any other object-oriented Python program. This usually results in smaller source code developed in less time.

Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

TurboGears
Create a database-driven, ready-to-extend application in minutes. All with designer friendly templates, easy AJAX on the browser side and on the server side, not a single SQL query in sight with code that is as natural as writing a function.

AJAX Toolkit Frameworks
AJAX Toolkit Framework
Overview - A technology that assists in constructing Eclipse framework support for AJAX Toolkits and provides enhanced DHTML/Javascript IDE features for AJAX developers. (This is an ETTK technology.)

AJAX Toolkits
AJAXLib
AJAXLib is a small JavaScript tool that makes working with AJAX applications a little easier.

CPAINT
CPAINT (Cross-Platform Asynchronous INterface Toolkit) is a multi-language toolkit that helps web developers design and implement AJAX web applications with ease and flexibility. It was originally born out of the author's frustration and disappointment with other open-source AJAX toolkits. It is built on the same principles of AJAX, utilizing JavaScript and the XMLHTTP object on the client-side and the appropriate scripting language on the server-side to complete the full circle of data passing from client to server and back.

Dojo
Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time. It fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don't go quite far enough, and gives you powerful, portable, lightweight, and tested tools for constructing dynamic interfaces.

JS-Sorcerer
JS-Sorcerer is a JavaScript development tool that greatly increases JavaScript programmers' productivity. It performs syntax checking, variable type and flow analysis on standalone JavaScript files, and provides type-safe linking for applications and projects that consist of multiple JavaScript files.

MochiKit
MochiKit.Visual provides visual effects and support functions for visuals.

Plex
The Plex Toolkit is a collection of JavaScript libraries which handle the transformation of custom XML markup embedded in an HTML document into user interface components, and creates a consistent environment in which to develop Rich Internet Applications - or more sensationally AJAX - using JavaScript, while smoothing over the browser incompatibilities.

Prototype
Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere.

Rico
Rico provides a very simple interface for registering Ajax request handlers as well as HTML elements or JavaScript objects as Ajax response objects. Multiple elements and/or objects may be updated as the result of one Ajax request.

Sajax
Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework — also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting — as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP, Perl or Python functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh. The toolkit does 99% of the work for you so you have no excuse to not use it.

script.aculo.us
The power of AJAX allows for rich user interaction without the trouble that has bugged traditional web applications. Building upon the wonderful Prototype JavaScript library, script.aculo.us provides you with some great additional

Comments on this post

Robert on 04/12 at 11:22 PM

You can also find much more at:

http://www.ajaxpatterns.org

and

http://www.ajaximpact.com/toolkits.php

Guy Peled on 04/16 at 06:25 AM

Check out another framework that takes a unique approach from all other frameworks eliminating once and for all the concept of pages, requests, responses, scripts and html for web application development. Leveraging well known desktop methodologies almost zero learning time as you develop in full WinForms like enviroment including design time capabilities.

http:\\www.visualwebgui.com

Bjorn on 04/17 at 10:48 AM

There’s also the Yahoo Interface library, which has ajax tools (and other libraries). It’s really cool.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/index.html

Li Shen on 05/01 at 01:51 PM

AJAX Client Engine (ACE) is a JavaScript component th at makes it easy to develop AJAX-style Web applications. It is easy to use and yet rich in features. http://www.lishen.name/index.html.

James MacFarlane on 05/01 at 02:02 PM

I’ve been building AJAX apps for over three years now. I originally started off with Brent Ashley’s JSRS trick (http://www.ashleyit.com/) and rolled-my-own for everything else, primarilty using Witango (http://www.witango.com) on the server-side.

AJAX made it really sweet to manage the back-end of a retail site I built that had to handle 50,000-plus in-store items.

Last week I decicded to make the move to Prototype and script.aculo.us. It has made my life a lot easier. It has also eliminated a number of work-arounds that were pretty ugly in my own code.

The beauty of Prototype is you can use almost anything for the back-end. It’s an excellent library that can get you up and running quickly.

Guido on 05/01 at 02:08 PM

cool list!
thank you for the compilation of those links!

Gilles on 05/01 at 02:23 PM

How about jquery? It’s so good even prototype is forming more and more into this syntax

Erik Bruchez on 05/01 at 02:28 PM

Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS) is an Ajax-based XForms implementations which functions as a declarative, standard-based, Ajax toolkit. See some demos here:

http://www.orbeon.com/software/get-excited

The bottom line is that with OPS and XForms, you write full-fledged Ajax application without writing a single line of Javascript by hand! Instead, you use standard XForms markup.

Bree on 05/01 at 05:49 PM

You might add DWR (http://getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/) to the list of Java centric Ajax frameworks. I’ve used it a bit; it’s quite amazing how quickly you can expose a java class as an Ajax service.

Bree

SergeySmirnov on 05/01 at 06:01 PM

Let me introduce the 51st - Ajax4jsf ( https://ajax4jsf.dev.java.net/ ), an AJAX component framework that has been created exclusively to bring rich user interface functionality to the JavaServer Faces (aka JSF) world.

Garret Wilson on 05/01 at 07:36 PM

Guise�, originally designed as a JSF alternative, is becoming a mature framework for handling AJAX transparently without the need to write or even know about HTML and JavaScript. It is similar to Java Swing but simpler, more elegant, and generics-aware. http://www.guiseframework.com/

SergeySmirnov on 05/01 at 08:10 PM

Sure, JSF has not problem with alternatives. Actually, it is a good sign of rising popularity. Couple years ago people compared their frameworks with Struts.

Garret Wilson on 05/01 at 08:51 PM

Sergey! Sorry, I didn’t even realize it was your post I posted under. I haven’t heard from you since my days on the JSF forum---so you stuck it out with JSF, eh? Good to hear from you, and best of luck---we’ll have to put AJAX4JSF and Guise up against each other one of these days! Drop me a line. All the best, Garret

DavidB on 05/01 at 10:53 PM

How about adding Millstone (millstone.org) to the list? AJAX rendering engine is not released yet, but “tech preview demo” on their site looks very promising to me.

Gr�n Christian-Rolf on 05/01 at 11:50 PM

Can you please change the link for the Catalyst Perl Framework to point to http://catalystframework.org/ (the homepage of the framework)?

Okan Ozkan on 05/01 at 11:58 PM

Very thanks..

Edwin on 05/02 at 04:15 AM

Try the Application Designer of Applications Composer tools from Software AG

Fully Ajax based, lots of coll stuf, including Google Maps integration

Paul Browne on 05/02 at 05:02 AM

Similar list , but focussing on the needs of Enterprise Java developers:

http://www.firstpartners.net/blog/technology/2006/03/01/web-20-and-enterprise-java-move-over-struts/

Mikey on 05/02 at 10:48 AM

What happened to Morfik? http://www.morfik.com is out ahead of Atlas, has an IDE/RAD, supports development in more traditional languages than Ruby and PHP (namely BASIC, C#, Java and Object Pascal), and rolls Apache and Firebird into each application, which means that apps can run online or off.

Sebastian Werner on 05/03 at 12:07 AM

What’s about qooxdoo (http://qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de). It’s a nice AJAX featuring GUI framework for javascript.

Srinu on 05/03 at 02:07 AM

I would appreciate, if you could evaluate our reusable GUI Widget framework. You may review:
http://cbsdf.com/technologies/misc-docs/GUI-Widgets.htm
http://cbsdf.com/technologies/misc-docs/CF-Goog-Charts.htm

We are pioneered a unique process to create very powerful online GUI Widgets, and only company can offer such innovations. I hope you would evaluate our disruptive inventions and give us a fair evaluation. You must pay attention to understand real disruptive technologies. Please review:
http://cbsdf.com/misc_docs/why-gui-api.htm
http://cbsdf.com/misc_docs/gui-api-brief.htm

We also invented a powerful component based process:
http://cbsdf.com/technologies/misc-docs/CF-LC-Figures.htm

Evgenios Skitsanos on 05/03 at 04:02 AM

Guys,

you forgot about Backbase AJAX framework (http://www.backbase.com). Backbase has tons of thing not available withing frameworks listed here, and hey, it is really platfrom independant.

Ryan Smith on 05/03 at 11:09 AM

Wow! What a great list. I try and keep track of new frameworks as they come out, but my list is nowhere as extensive as yours.

Andy Miller on 05/03 at 01:12 PM

Another one for .NET…

Overview: http://anthemdotnet.com/
SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/anthem-dot-net

Andre Charland on 05/03 at 07:38 PM

Also there’s the EBA component line: http://developer.ebusiness-apps.com

This includes a very rich cross platform Grid and Combo Box at this point but more coming in the suite. Check out: http://labs.ebusiness-apps.com for more info.

Another resource for frameworks etc. can be found at http://ajaxinfo.com

I’m a co-founder and president at eBusiness Applications. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Henry on 05/03 at 09:28 PM

I have been using domapi (http://www.domapi.com) over a year now. loving it. It has a strong framework and come with a lot of interesting components that you may not find else where.

Matteo Casati on 05/05 at 12:44 AM

JavaScript SOAP Client is a little library (12 KB) to use AJAX to consume Web Services.
You can find the article, the source code and some demos at http://www.guru4.net/articoli/javascript-soap-client/en/
Your comments are welcome.

ramsing on 05/05 at 07:46 AM

Max,

Can you verify the following?

Does any Ajax framework offer reusable Ajax component generators, where the GUI components in the web page communicate with each other?
http://cbsdf.com/technologies/misc-docs/GUI-Widgets.htm
http://cbsdf.com/technologies/misc-docs/CF-Goog-Charts.htm
Does any Ajax framework offer generic method for developers to build custom Widgets (Find sample code for GUI-Widget for Flight component)?
http://cbsdf.com/misc_docs/why-gui-api.htm
http://cbsdf.com/misc_docs/gui-api-brief.htm
Does any Ajax framework allow the widgets be used in building component hierarchies?
http://cbsdf.com/technologies/demo-links/DHTML_Demo/EXAMPLE1/ie_float1a.html
http://cbsdf.com/technologies/demo-links/DHTML_Demo/EXAMPLE1/ie_floats2a.html
(Please see the JSP code and data driven Widgets, used as subcomponents. More examples:)
http://cbsdf.com/technologies/demo-links/demo-links.htm
Please verify the claims in the web site. Is Ajax is Stone Age compared desktop GUI platforms?
http://cbsdf.com/technologies/misc-docs/Scales-Dials-Meters.htm
Do all of the existing frameworks have fundamental limitations as listed above? Are they being useful across SVG/Flex/DTHML? Are they light white? What about the code size?

Dingus P. on 05/09 at 12:52 AM

In response to:
“Do all of the existing frameworks have fundamental limitations as listed above? Are they being useful across SVG/Flex/DTHML? Are they light white?”

Well if you use Napisan framework, most can be changed from Light White to Bright White. Usually only one application.

Thomas Healey on 05/10 at 12:00 PM

What about XTile from Tapestry Deli for us tapestry developers

Joepperde Poep on 05/11 at 11:05 PM

ajax.solutoire.com also has a lot of ajax resources

Daren Sher on 05/15 at 05:06 AM

I use Visual WebGui to develop applications using Visual Studio .net Winforms. It enables me to focus on form design and functionality without worrying about javascript, html, ajax and all the other stuff thats needed for a cool web application. I only need to design the forms like I use to do for desktop applications and then program all of the logic in C# (I think they may also have it working in other .net languages) and then I get a working application that looks, feels and behaves like a desktop application only it doesn’t need installation or any plug-ins.

tech-guide admin on 05/18 at 01:14 AM

The google web toolkit: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

Allows you to develop in Java, and add state to the browser’s back button history.

Dror Matalon on 05/18 at 11:03 AM

We also offer the Zapatec AJAX Suite that you can see at http://www.zapatec.com/website/main/products/suite/

totoro on 05/24 at 02:09 AM

Too much framework… Do you know if there is a benchmark somewhere. My principle trouble is cross browser and cross plateform compatibility and i’d like the framework to be easy to integrate to my project (working with java, javascript and servlet on Eclipse no JSF) I also need to have nice components like calendar and a nice excel like table.
Is it possible??

Stephan Strittmatter on 05/24 at 06:07 AM

Not a complete framework, but probably usefull also working with AJAX:
http://log4js.berlios.de/ - Log4js a logging API for JavaScript also supporting AJAX.

Laurent Simon on 05/24 at 07:48 AM

@totoro> For cross browser compatibilty, you can find some data here:

http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2006/03/ajax-dhtml-library-scorecard.html

James Taylor on 05/24 at 09:08 AM

SmartForms for Blaze Advisor (http://edmblog.fairisaac.com/weblog/smart_forms/index.html) is an AJAX-using extension to bring declarative rules-driven development to data collection UIs. No business logic visible on the client for those that care about such things.

john on 05/24 at 10:05 PM

Hi,

There was an Ajax based mind-mapping application on a website. I saw it somewhere, tried it, and vowed to return to it but cannot locate the website now. I would appreciate if someone could point me towards it.

thanks.

Rajeev B on 06/06 at 11:26 PM

New to Ajax but want to use it.
With the Mind numbing number of frameworks and libraries that are popping up in a hurry, its hard to pick the rigt thing. So while I am trying to make a choice, these I thought would be some good Criteria for picking up an Ajax Framework:

1) Should be cross browser compatible
2) Should take care of Back/Forwar button issues
3) Should not tie me down to a particular language (Java/C#/Perl/...)
4) Should not pose problems using with an MVC Framework of my choice (Struts/Spring/JSF/...)
5) Providing a Rich set of UI Wigets and allowing me to build more
6) Easy to use, and easy to integrate.

Well I would love to see someone talk about these Any Suggestions? Any one?

Jo Lee on 06/14 at 09:14 AM

MB Technologies’ Bindows would be a great addiiton to your list. Proven and mature, Bindows provides a complete development environment with the richest toolset for building Ajax and Web 2.0 applications. Just announced, Bindows is also the first Ajax framework to support the development of Ajax and Web 2.0 applications that meet Section 508 accessibility standards.

Developers can now buiild applications witin the Bindows framework that include grids, menus and other widgets that support leading text-to-speech screen readers, such as JAWS and Windows Eyes, and screen magnifiers, such as MAGic. Working closely with The Paciello Group, assistive technology experts, MB Technologies spent over a year developing this accessibility functionality to support large enterprise deployments for government and international agencies.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Jo Lee

Joshua Gertzen on 06/19 at 12:32 PM

ThinWire is another Java, pure Server-Side framework that you might want to look at. It�s open-source under the GPL and will soon be listed on sourceforge. In any case, some of it�s features are:

* Familiar event-driven GUI programming model
* Reconnects the flow of logic, no request / response
* Maintains state naturally via variables, not via session
* Develop exclusively in server-side language only
* Rich Set of Complex Widget Components
* ThinWire downloads once, just over 100K
* Zero footprint client, no applets, activeX controls or browser plug-ins of any kind!
* All Major Browsers Supported: Firefox 1, Opera 8, Safari 2, IE6

Ajax Projects on 06/26 at 03:38 AM

keep yourself updated with all new tookits/frameworks by visiting http://www.ajaxprojects.com

Aaron on 07/03 at 11:47 AM

Great Information ! You are doing a great job on your blog !

Venkat Reddy on 07/10 at 10:15 PM

An interesting tutorial for lightweight and scalable Ajax reusable GUI Classes at:
http://cbsdf.com/technologies/DHTML-Widgets/Widget-samples.htm
http://cbsdf.com/learn.html

Modpul on 08/14 at 11:20 AM

Great stuff for ajax.
Great job Max.

Modpul on 08/14 at 11:40 AM

It�s exciting to see what kinds of new ideas will be coming out next. Thanks Max�this is a great list. Ajax is getting to be more and more fun!

dav0 on 09/02 at 11:37 PM

This is a great blog! I think we need more of this sort of thing.

The thing that amazes me about this whole Ajax phenomenon however, is that it is really nothing new. As someone who has been slogging it out doing DHTML for quite some time now with various server side solutions and through the many browser wars, these Ajax toolkits seem to sort of miss the point. It seems to me that the main problem is that browsers still seem to be stuck with Javascript (ECMAScript). Of course, it could be worse, we could all be stuck with VBScript!

Even with all of its various language improvements over the years as well as the apparent peace amidst what was and in some ways still is a very bloody ongoing browser war, the problem is that ECMAScript, like the Javascript language it attempts to tame, is still not strongly typed and can not really be compiled. Isn’t this the reason why, after all of these years as the only surviving scripting language which browsers all seem willing to support, that few developers seem willing to spend much time really learning this language so that they might become better Javascript [ECMAScript] developers in the first place?

In other words, why continue to put yet more layers of lipstick on the pig with things like Ajax (whose main goal is to protect the developer from the violent world of Javascript/ECMAscript coding) when what we really need is a decent client side language to replace Javascript/ECMAscript for developing client side application components with for the browser? Either that, or simply focus on improving the Javascript/ECMAscript language with more of a focus on the client side development environment with tools such as the Venkman debugger for Firefox?

Just a thought…

marc on 09/11 at 10:52 AM

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It’s good news that there have tons of ajax frameworks.But which is the best one?I’m sure some of them will die after one year because we need standard.

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Good list and good job Mike,
but ... what Toolkit or Framework is the better? Who is back for their mantenance? the most easy to run?
It wanted to have a list valued by different concepts (functionality, extensibilidad, yield, facility, etc) from all these tools to be able to choose the best one.

Alex Jones on 11/10 at 06:46 AM

I couldn’t agree more. Java has so many frameworks… Velocity, Struts, EJB3, J2EE, Swing, Spring, SWT, JSF, Trails, and to add AJAX frameworks to the mix makes it tough to track. DHTML has in fact been around for almost a decade now and AJAX really is not new. The idea of dynamic content is a good one but is really hackers posing as engineers. The Web is still too slow -even in house- to be used for time sensitive software such as human task interaction. For an extreme image an assembly robots having to communicate with a web server to get its next move. AJAX can help hide the deficiency but local data and algorithms are still required and are what led AWAY from centralized computing and to client-server and the PC in the first place. AJAX is one step back toward local software.

Tim on 11/10 at 08:30 AM

I have recently released a simple PHP AJAX toolkit. It makes creating AJAX easy, and it ends up being as easy to work with as traditional PHP synchronous web interaction. It is inexpensive yet powerful. Check it out today!

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Manuel on 11/10 at 10:42 AM

I’d want mentioned the project Jmaki, it is hosted in https://ajax.dev.java.net/, and it is promoted in the Java site of SUN
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/webapp_2/.

Other Ajax tool promoted by SUN is DynaFaces, and it’s an extension on JSF 1.2.

good job Max

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Outpost Framework is a free and open source .NET Ajax framework, that submits post backs using xmlhttp and receives and displays the html difference.

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