State of the Open AJAX project
On May 15 and 16 in San Francisco was held the Open AJAX Summit, led by IBM, with the participation of about 28 companies. Coach Wei, chief technology officer at Burlington, Mass.-based Nexaweb Technologies, who attended the OpenAJAX Summit, told eWEEK that more than 20 of the group's 28 companies participated in the event hosted by Adobe Systems.
The group decided that its official mission is to advance adoption of AJAX technologies, Wei said. To achieve this, he added, the group established three main areas of focus: decrease the risk of AJAX adoption by providing interoperability; ensure that AJAX solutions adhere to open standards and use open-source technology; and preserve the open nature of the Web."We decided to keep it informal," Wei said of the OpenAJAX Alliance. "We're not going to make it a corporation or a formal organization. We don't want to become a standards organization or an open-source hosting organization like Eclipse or Apache. But we will work with groups like the W3C [World Wide Web Consortium] for standards and Eclipse and Apache for open-source projects."
There is also a news about the participation of Microsoft in the effort of the OpenAJAX project, based on the work the company has done with Atlas. "You want to be inclusive of as many people as possible because there could be a Java EE [Enterprise Edition] back end that does AJAX, or a PHP or .Net one," Smith said. "I don't want to close any doors. I hope Microsoft does come. This is definitely not a good old boys club."
The OpenAJAX Alliance decided to hold weekly or biweekly conference calls, with the first action being to look at how to improve interoperability among AJAX solutions, Wei said. And in a blog post, Scott Dietzen, president and chief technology officer of Zimbra, said the OpenAJAX Alliance came away with five main themes: "We need to clearly define AJAX; Clarify the mission of OpenAJAX; Endorse and improve AJAX platform technologies; Endorse and improve AJAX design patterns; and Last, but not least, improve the browser."
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