Oracle is contributing its Ajax user interface
technology to the web development open source
community.
Ajax, or Asynchronous Javascript and XML, helps enable web pages
to be more interactive, and is a growing open source development
language among programmers.
Oracle said it was donating a set of Ajax-enabled user-interface
components, and reckoned developers would be able to assemble the
reusable components on a page and connect them to an application
data source.
Oracle has integrated Ajax with the JavaServer Faces technology
to build interactive user interfaces that run within a browser.
Ted Farrell, chief architect and vice president for tools and
middleware at Oracle, said, “Java, open source and scripting
languages are key elements for the development of the next wave of
web applications.”
Oracle also plans to support a number of open source scripting
communities and the new JSR-223 specification, to enable scripting
languages, such as Groovy, Grails and PHP, to be used in Java
server applications.
