What are open source AJAX frameworks ?

Java frameworks

DWR (Direct Web Remoting)

• Java open source library
• can call Java code on server from Javascript
• has 2 parts :
• JavaScript on browser (client) can send calls to servlet (server side) and dynamically update the web page
• provides interface to use Java functions as a part of the browser

GWT (Google Web Toolkit)

• Open source
• GWT compiler converts your Java classes to JavaScript and HTML
• Programmer need to code front end in Java

 
.NET frameworks

Ajax.NET Professional

• converts .NET data to the JSON format

Microsoft Ajax Library

• Microsoft AJAX Library (client side) and ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Extensions (server side)

 
php frameworks
CodeIgniter

• uses PHP functions (Server side) to process requests from browser

JavaScript libraries
jQuery

• JavaScript library with Ajax support
• included in the Wordpress and Drupal CMS
• provides the most complete documentation.
• Full access to the DOM

Dojo Toolkit

• uses packages with a mechanism to load them together along with the page
• can build reusable components and widgets, a lot of them is provided on the site
• can manipulate the DOM more easily, and to make graphical effects

Mootools

• Another toolkit as JQuery
• includes graphical effects provided by graphical widgets
• Modular

jQuip

• More modular version of JQuery

Closure Library

• The Google's JavaScript framework
• comes along with a compiler and a template system to help generating pages

ExtJS

• JavaScript platform for rapid development of applications
• provides a set of graphic components dedicated to rich web applications (many plugins, UI components, widgets)
• can easily be combined with another framework or JavaScript libraries
• Modular

Anaa

• A simple library for GET and POST
• Suitable for learning Ajax
• allows asynchronous reading and writing, and can be combined with any JavaScript library

Other JS libraries

• Qooxdoo
• Script Aculous
• Rico