IBM have released few days ago their AJAX Toolkit Framework (ATF), a technology that assists in constructing Eclipse framework support for AJAX Toolkits and provides enhanced DHTML/Javascript IDE features for AJAX developers. ATF have lot of requirements to get started : 1024 MB disk space, 1024 MB RAM, 1-GHz processor or above which fit very well with all new hardware. But there is also software requirements : Eclipse 3.1.1, Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0, Java™ 1.4.2 (Sun or IBM) and finally Windows® 2000 or XP. Maybe I can fit the hardware requirements, but not the software specially Eclipse.

AJAX Toolkit Framework (ATF) provides extensible tools for building IDEs for the many different AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) run-time environments (such as Dojo, Zimbra, etc.). This technology also contains features for developing, debugging, and testing AJAX applications. The framework provides enhanced JavaScript editing features such as edit-time syntax checking; an embedded Mozilla Web browser; an embedded DOM browser; and an embedded JavaScript debugger.

An additional and unique aspect of the framework is the Personality Builder function, which assists in the construction of IDE features for arbitrary AJAX run-time frameworks and thus adds to the supported set of run-time environments in the ATF.