Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. It defines both generally useful functions for Javascript development, as well as some pieces for doing actual AJAX interactions. See http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html for some good documentation.

Anyterm provides a terminal emulator on a Web page using Javascript and an Apache module. The module forks a shell and communicates with the script using XMLHTTP on port 80, or securely using SSL.

Ajaxterm is a web based terminal. Ajaxterm written in python (and some AJAX javascript for client side) and depends only on python2.3 or better. Ajaxterm is very simple to install on Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, cygwin and any Unix that runs python2.3.

jMaki is a JSP tag library / JSF component for Ajax development. Developers can use jMaki to integrate rich Javascript widgets into their Javascript web applications. jMaki provides bootstrap widgets from Dojo, Script.aculo.us, Yahoo! UI Library – and includes RSS, del.icio.us, and chat widgets. jMaki is written for JSP 2.0/JSF 1.1, but it should work on any servlet containers that support the JSP 2.0 or JSF 1.1 specfications.

The GlassFish community currently includes over 1100 members participating in the GlassFish project, with the objective of developing an open source application server that implements Java EE 5. In addition, the community is working to develop various web services technologies apart from the application server development effort. The community includes independent contributors as well as contributors from various organizations and companies. The GlassFish project isn’t just about Java E

The XMLHttpRequest object was first invented by Microsoft as a way to create HTTP Requests to the web server from JavaScript. It has since been copied by Mozilla and Safari... also by others

MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework designed to make writing extensible and cross browser code easier and faster. Follows popular javascript library conventions Includes physics fx functionality for rich animation effects External Links Recent mootools bug (2/14/07)

AJAX Client Engine (ACE) is a JavaScript component that makes it easy to develop AJAX-style Web applications.

The AJAX Toolkit Framework is a proposed open-source project to be incubated within the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (“WTP”) Project. Several high profile companies have expressed support for this project, including: BEA IBM Laszlo Oracle RedHat Genuitec Yahoo Zend Zimbra External Links Proposal Details

popular rails pages Rails is a very popular Web application framework for Ruby modeled after the MVC pattern. The Rails framework allows a developer to build database applications in Ruby quickly and easily, while emphasizing MVC design. As such, Rails consists of Model, View and Controller components. Rails’ MVC The Rails Model component is a set of classes that use Active Record, an ORM class that maps database tables to objects. Active Record uses naming conventions to determ

Ruby on Rails or ‘Rails’ is a web application framework. See Rails.

Helpful articles for Ajax Development (if you have a really useful link to add, go ahead) General Articles From Jesse James Garrett (who coined the term) Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications (original article defining Ajax) Why Ajax Matters Now Weighing the Alternatives – How does Ajax compare to other RIA techniques? Basic Tutorials Basic Ajax Tutorials developer.mozilla.org – AJAX – Getting Started Mastering Ajax – 3 part series

Popular Toolkits Ajax or Asynchronous Javascript and XML as it was first termed, is shorthand for Javascript UI development, particularly Javascript development that uses the XMLHttpRequest object. XMLHttpRequest and other techniques used to communicate to the server from Javascript prompted the invention of the word, using these techniques Web UIs driven by Javascript may be made more interactive with server data and more responsive, as small fragments of data may be exchanged efficiently bet

Here are places it’s useful to use Ajax: (This is a collaborative wiki list – feel free to add your own ideas to it) ””“MANISH KUMAR SINGH IS THE KING’””” Form driven interaction. Forms are slow. Damn slow. Editing a tag (the old way) on a del.icio.us bookmark? Click on the edit link to load the edit bookmark form page, then edit the field and hit submit to wait for the submission to go through, then return to the previous page and scro