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Ajax grabs center stage at JavaOne
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05/19/2006, By Tony Baer
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Sun Microsystems Inc kicked off the web 2.0 messaging during the keynote where it demonstrated an Ajax flavor of Sun's Java Studio Creator.
On stage, Sun showed how you could use Studio Creator to create an orchestration of web screens, using BPEL that would in turn call services exposed from Java components. In this case, Sun used the typical Google Maps example, grabbing an Ajax code clip exposed as a reusable web service, to do a mashup showing local watering holes near San Francisco's Moscone Center.
The common theme of these tools is to help Java developers create Ajax screens without having to drop down into coding JavaScript, which is probably Greek to most of them.
We previously described a tool from Google that offers a compiler that converts Java source code to JavaScript. Most of the other Ajax offerings, however, relied on another approach: using Java Server Faces (JSFs) to automatically spawn JavaScript and XML components.
Part of the Java EE 5 package of goodies first announced last year, JSF's initial role in life was to simplify the deployment of Java Server Pages (JSPs) by wrapping them as part of larger grained components. That role seems now to have been commandeered by Ajax.
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