Some days back I wrote an Article “Are we ready to adopt Ajax to improve usability? ” highlighting the various questions that need to be answered before we can really adopt it.
Here is one initiative called “Open Ajax Project” that aims to create a single framework that standardizes development and debugging on a common library of Ajax widgets that could run on multiple Ajax runtimes. Open Ajax is endorsed by IBM, BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Google, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla, Novell, Openwave, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend, and Zimbra.
Here are some of the initiatives that will be covered as part of this Project:
- Bringing order to chaos that is existing right now in Ajax market with everyone developing their own framework for Ajax applications.
- To have Open Ajax framework that supports various other frameworks like OpenRico, Zimbra etc.
- Standardize around a common set of widgets, interfaces and plugins to Eclipse.
- Standardize way of writing Ajax Applications.
- Common tooling.
Its a great initiative but only concern is about its success. But one thing is sure that if we get though this, Ajax is going to rule the world for coming years. So lets wait and watch how it all goes !!!!!
Updated 12-05-2006: OpenAjax announced the addition of another 13 memebers to collaborative group. The new members include Adobe, Backbase, Fair Isaac, ICEsoft, Innoopract, Intel, JackBe, Opera, SAP, Scalix, Software AG, Tibco and XML11.
