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AUL adds accesskey underlines to html pages without putting the u in the source. All you do is tag your legends or buttons with the accesskey attribute and then include the library. The js code will search through all the elements with access key set and add the u tags to the dom. If the character isn't found in the element it will be added to the end.

Behavior works by using css selectors to add javascript code to DOM elements. You create a hash of css selectors and functions that take an element add onclick etc JavaScript. You then register these rules against a page and matches them against there matching DOM elements and the JavaScript code is added. The code is designed in a way that you can treat these rule files just like style sheets so all the page using them needs is an include. Behaviour's goal is to remove the heavy use of onclick attributes and script nodes from pages so they aren't messing up content. It works well and can help make your JavaScript more reusable since its more centralized.

AJAX library for Java generates JavaScript from Java classes. Proxy classes are used in JavaScript to call Servlet methods on the Java Tomcat server. Provides lots of examples to help you get started including a Multi-User chat example. Looks to support automatic fallback to iframes if XMLHttpRequest is not supported. Also has easy hooks for providing a global loading status.

Dojo is a class library for JavaScript and DHTML. At the core of Dojo is a package system that can include as little or as much of this class library as your application needs. Dojo "plays nice" with other tools (does not pollute gloabal objects or namespace) and is lightweight to develop with and even faster when you deploy it. Dojo provides a capable widget system that makes building and using widgets in markup drop-dead easy. Overviews of many parts of the system are available on the Dojo wiki at http://dojo.jot.com.

This is the stand-alone version of the Ruby-on-Rails javascript library. Provides Basic Cross browser AJAX support, but there is no documentation so using it outside of rails will take a bit of work. Looks like it has an api for easy content replacement. Most exciting features are easy to use effects like fade, appear, blindup, they are documented on their own site.

Rico is a object oriented Javascript library that provides most of what you need to create AJAX applications. It supports ajax using either either content replace or callback objects. The drag and drop, effects, and behaviors so easy to use and look great in the demo. Rico is being developed by Sabre Airline Solutions and extends the Prototype js library using its effect and base classes.

Provides a purly JavaScript driven AJAX implementation. A nice simple implementation built within a single js class. Most usage is based on overriding methods on this class at runtime, or accessing member variables. While the implementation is simple the api while not hard to understand isn't as simple as the name would suggest.

Provides a cross browsers (IE and Mozilla) api for sending requests over XMLHttpRequest using either GET or POST. Supports synchronous and asynchronous operation. Provides some basic utility functions for working with the resulting xml. Also provides caching support and a pool for XMLHttpRequest objects.

Cross-browser wrapper for native XML APIs. It offers various XML related goodies like Document instantiation, XML loading from URLs or strings, XSLT transformations, XPath queries. Provides an XMLHttpRequest wrapper thats supports synchronous and asynchronous operation.

A small (4kb) lightweight js library that provides drag n drop of dom elements. Website contains lots of examples to help you get started but also suggests its non-conventational and expirimental in setup. Doesn't seem to be actively maintained but its small enough it might just be feature complete.