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Hands-on, instructor-led Ajax training classes delivered at client sites worldwide

An AJAX training course covering basic usage.

OO PHP AJAX library, uses JSON as its serialization format, and supports events and HTML manipulation

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.

browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation and message filters Tech wise it uses its own XMLHttpRequest wrapper and sends javascript to the client which is evaled. All AJAX reports seem to be GET requests just passing in some basic data in the query string. I'm not sure what they do for forms, the code has a number of large monolithic library files so its not the easiest to quickly understand.

Slides explaining how a JavaScript behavior layer works and why you should use it

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.

Very well written feed reader with a nice clean UI. Good example of how to give feedback to a user during the loadng process. No toolkit was used but its not really needed for an app like this since all the work is done in PHP. New chunks of HTML are downloaded and replaced using innerHTML.

Bitkraft is a CLR based (.NET) web framework. It is written in C# and compiles for operation under the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1+ or the .Mono Framework, making it portable to almost any platform. At it's core, the Bitkraft framework extends the ASP .NET Architecture to fully support Javascript-based Server callbacks using the XmlHttpRequest object as a transport to provide for AJAX communications. By extending the .NET architecture elements like web controls can be used seemlessly in an AJAX fashion.

A basic javascript library which serializes javascript data types into xml-rpc payloads. JavaScript Remote Scripting is used for communication with the server. The actual usage seems pretty raw, since there is no wsdl or other proxy generation support. All major JavaScript datatypes are supported and the code includes a php script which acts as a proxy to any XML-RPC service. The actual XML-RPC generation code looks easy to use with other tranports if needed.