PUBLIC MARKS from Regis with tags java & ajax

Java to JavaScript Compiler & J2S SWT Library. Java-to-JavaScript compiler, provide general java.lang.* and java.util.*, and an extra UI widget library. This is very similar to Google Web Toolkit, except that GWT requires to use specific widgets wheras J2S uses standard SWT widgets. And J2S as an Eclipse License.

Data is everywhere. It is on your computer, on the internet, squirreled away on some corporate server. We have telephone records, class schedules, blogs, personal websites, and our personal favorite websites. There're Flickr, MySpace, and online genealogical tools. This article introduces simple techniques and APIs available in the SwingX-WS project to help you write rich client applications in Java that take advantage of all these data sources for creating Swing mashups, or Smashups.

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. Thanks dojo!

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript's lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.

Wicket is a Java web application framework that takes simplicity, separation of concerns and ease of development to a whole new level. Wicket pages can be mocked up, previewed and later revised using standard WYSIWYG HTML design tools Wicket is similar to GWT or Echo2, since it ajaxifies a Java application.

DWR reduces Ajax development time and the likelihood of errors by providing commonly used functions and removing almost all of the repetitive code normally associated with highly interactive web sites. DWR is freely available as open source software. It is straightforward to implement with extensive libraries, examples and tutorials. Incorporating it into existing sites is simple as it readily integrates with the most commonly used Java frameworks. One of my favorite Ajax toolkits.

With Sun, Ajax is not just an announcement. Sun Java Studio Creator 2 lets incorporate components that use Ajax.

Rialto (Rich Internet Application Toolkit) is an open-source 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. The purpose of Rialto is to ease the access to rich internet application development to corporate developers. Ideally a Rialto developer have neither need to write or understand DHTML, Ajax or DOM code.