RE: Ajax Framework Comparison

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<p>This is a really interesting post that I need to read more into.<blockquote></p> <p>[Matt Harrison](http://panela.blog-city.com/ajax_explosion.htm) was talking about making choices between various Ajax toolkits, frameworks, or libraries.</p> <p /><p>He linked over to [the OSA foundation](http://wiki.osafoundation.org/) and their [Survey of AJAX/JavaScript Libraries](http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/AjaxLibraries).</p> <p /><p>Their survey discusses:</p> <p /><ul></ul> <li>[Dojo](http://dojotoolkit.org/)</li> <li>[DWR](http://www.getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/)</li> <li>[JSON-RPC-JAVA](http://oss.metaparadigm.com/jsonrpc/index.html)</li> <li>[MochiKit](http://mochikit.com/)</li> <li>[Prototype](http://prototype.conio.net/)</li> <li>[Rico](http://openrico.org/)</li> <li>[SAJAX](http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/)</li> <li>[Scriptaculous](http://script.aculo.us/)</li> <li>[Xajax](http://xajax.sourceforge.net/)</li> <li>[Sack](http://twilightuniverse.com/projects/sack/)</li> <p /><p>The world of Ajax libs is an interesting one, as they cover various functionality.</p> <p /><p>We blogged about the Ajax layers in the past:</p> <p /><p>[[posterous-content:DhEInpEexafexrsBetrt]]</p> <p /><p>NOTE: [Michael Mahemoff also collected framework information](http://www.ajaxpatterns.org/AJAXFrameworks)<p /></p> </blockquote><i>[Via [Ajaxian](http://www.ajaxian.com/archives/2005/10/ajax_framework_2.html)]</i><p />I have been doing a lot of backend work with XMLHttpRequest for my Ajax Tagger Version 2, and I am wondering if I should have bothered. I will look into some of these solutions and see what each offers.<p />

This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan