AJAX is now Enterprise

The latest version of the Java Pet Store Reference Application includes AJAX. This allows enterprise java developers to ease into the AJAX world via an existing comfort zone -- the Java Pet Store.

Here are two AJAX recommendations for the enterprise java developer (from the Java One talk - TS-1615 Javaâ„¢ EE 5 BluePrints for AJAX-Enabled Web 2.0 Applications (Details | Slides)).

• Adopt a library and don't try to re-invent the wheel
  • Prototype
  • RICO
  • Script.aculo.us
  • Dojo
  • Zimbra
  • Google Web Toolkit
• Use xml for structured portable data, use plain text for when injecting content in the HTML, use JSON for direct representations of objects

For more detail, view the slides.