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Eclipse To Play Central Role in "Open Ajax" Coalition

URL: IBM Leads "Open AJAX" Coalition of Web 2.0 Vendors

At 10:07 PM on Feb 1, 2006, R.J. Lorimer Javalobby Editors wrote:

The Eclipse Foundation is now a major participant in "Open Ajax": a coalition of companies who all have an interest in Web 2.0.

The Open AJAX initiative does not have a centralized structure or website, but is rather an idea that is being formally backed by BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend and Zimbra. A spokesperson for one of the major backers said that Google will also be backing this initiative.

The Eclipse Foundation is contributing the strength of the Eclipse platform, with the promise of the Ajax Toolkit Framework proposal (ATF) mentioned in this quote from, once again, Mike Milinkovich:

The proposed Eclipse AJAX toolkit framework "is the first approach that supports multiple AJAX runtime toolkits," according to an official statement. "Its personality builder can typically enable additional toolkits in less than an hour. The runtimes presently supported are from Dojo, OpenRico and Zimbra. Moving forward, other community members will also be able to participate in the proposed Eclipse project with the incorporation of other personality builders or toolkit extensions."

Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich (pictured above) told us that the Foundation "is going to host the project, focused on two of the open AJAX initiatives. The first was started by IBM some time ago, and there’s been a proposal up on our website now for it for about a week or two, for a project for the tool for the open AJAX initiative. The idea is that these tools are going to be open ended."

ATF was mentioned just a little while ago here on EclipseZone by Ed Burnette .

Until next time,

R.J. Lorimer
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1. At 3:40 AM on Mar 3, 2006, Mats Henricson Javalobby Junkies wrote:

Isn't all this typical vapourware?

A lot of companies woke up late to the Ajax breakfast, realized they needed to panic, so they put out a press release that they were hard at work. Now they're scrambling like crazy to glue something together, and in the process I bet they will "by accident" glue it together with the Eclipse framework. So the rest of us who prefer other tools will be more or less gently pushed towards Eclipse to be part of the Open Ajax Initiative party.

This could end up being a rather sad show, I'm afraid.
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