Java Open Software

The ZK Desktop provides a web-based "desktop" interface built on top the ZK AJAX toolkit.
The ZK Desktop consists of an application loader, a packaging specification, data-source independent database editor, persistence layer, access control, and several APIs for allowing the creation of additional ZK Desktop applications.
Multiple applications can be hosted on a single desktop at the same time, as well as multiple instances of a single application (or any combination).

Best of all, application developers are protected from the complexities of client-server data exchange and synchronization. ZK Desktop Web Applications are developed like a traditional desktop application and all communications are handled automatically!

The system has been (and continues to be) developed to provide a platform for the continued development of web-based applications for a corporate intranet and several public internet projects.

The goal is to provide a robust, feature-rich, "Desktop-Like" development environment for lightweight applications.

http://zkdesktop.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

AJAX4JMX is a framework for easy development of customized dynamic web user interfaces for jmx enabled applications. It is implemented using Google's GWT framework.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajax4jmx/

SweetDEV RIA is a complete set of Java/J2EE world-class Ajax widgets. It helps you to design Rich GUI in a thin client.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweetdev-ria/

Helmi Technologies' open source basis enables developers to rapidly build browser-independent Rich Internet Applications, in the process making it possible for them to contribute to and influence the future direction of the RIA market.

http://www.helmitechnologies.com/open_source/overview/

Open-jACOB is a free framework for building a new generation of richer, more interactive, database driven, highly personalized cross-browser web applications.

http://www.openjacob.org/

AjaxAnywhere turns any set existing JSP/JSF components into AJAX-aware components without a complex JavaScript coding. Simply separate your web page into multiple zones, and use AjaxAnywhere to refresh only those zones that needs to be updated.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxanywhere

Extension to Google's GWT framework, providing support for using Google Maps API in GWT. Note, this project is not sponsored by Google.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gwt/

RC Faces or Rich Client Faces is a JavaServerFaces library that provides a component set for building next generation Web applications. RC Faces use AJAX technologies and an object-oriented JavaScript API to build highly dynamic pages.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rcfaces/

JBoss Seam is a powerful new application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 applications by unifying and integrating technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Java Server Faces (JSF), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB3), Java Portlets and Business Process Management (BPM).

JBoss(R) Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java(TM) EE author: Michael Juntao Yuan,Thomas Heute asin: 0131347969

Beginning JBoss® Seam: From Novice to Professional author: Joseph Faisal Nusairat asin: 1590597923

Practical JBoss Seam® Web 2.0 Projects (Practical) author: Jim Farley asin: 1590598636

The RAP project aims to enable developers to build rich, Ajax-enabled Web applications by using the Eclipse development model, plug-ins with the well known Eclipse workbench extenstion points and a widget toolkit with SWT API (plus JFace).

http://www.eclipse.org/rap/

ICEfaces is an integrated Ajax application framework that enables Java EE application developers to easily create and deploy thin-client rich Internet applications (RIA) in pure Java. ICEfaces is a fully featured product that enterprise developers can use to develop new or existing Java EE applications at no cost.

ICEfaces is the only RIA framework on the market today that delivers unique Ajax Push capabilities. Discover the power of Ajax Push and create collaborative and dynamic enterprise applications like never before.

jMaki is an Ajax framework that provides a lightweight model for creating JavaScript centric Ajax-enabled web applications using Java, PHP, and Phobos.

https://ajax.dev.java.net/

The AJAX Tag Library is a set of JSP tags that simplify the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) technology in JavaServer Pages.

AJAX is primarily rooted in JavaScript. However, many server-side developers do not have an extensive knowledge of client-side programming in the browser. It's much easier in some cases for J2EE developers, especially, to simply add a JSP tag to the page to gain the function desired.

This tag library fills that need by not forcing J2EE developers to write the necessary JavaScript to implement an AJAX-capable web form. The tag library provides support for live form updates for the following use cases: autocomplete based on character input to an input field, select box population based on selections made from another field, callout or balloon popups for highlighting content, refreshing form fields, and toggling images and form field states on/off.

The implementation is a combination of Java classes and JavaScript source files. The Java code should be OS independent as there are no client side components. However, the Java is dependent on JDK 1.4+ and requires a Servlet container to run. The JavaScript should run in at least Firefox 1.0+ and Internet Explorer 5.0+.

http://ajaxtags.sourceforge.net/

DWR allows Javascript in a browser to interact with Java on a server and helps you manipulate web pages with the results.
The 2.0 version allows Java on the server to asynchronously send JavaScript to the client.

http://getahead.org/dwr

Echo2 is the next-generation of the Echo Web Framework, a platform for developing web-based applications that approach the capabilities of rich clients. The 2.0 version holds true to the core concepts of Echo while providing dramatic performance, capability, and user-experience enhancements made possible by its new Ajax-based rendering engine.

Red Hat and Exadel announced a strategic partnership to open source and bring Exadel's Ajax4jsf, RichFaces, and Studio Pro products to JBoss as JBoss Ajax4jsf, JBoss RichFaces, and Red Hat Developer Studio, respectively.

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language.

Google Web Toolkit Solutions: More Cool & Useful Stuff author: David Geary,Rob Gordon asin: 0132344815

Google Web Toolkit: GWT Java Ajax Programming author: Prabhakar Chaganti asin: 1847191002

Gwt in Action: Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit author: Robert Hanson,Adam Tacy asin: 1933988231

GWT in Practice author: Robert Cooper,Charlie Collins asin: 1933988290

75 XUL and 82 XHTML off-the-shelf components, such as grid, tabbox, tree, combobox, chart, splitter, slider, audio... Macro components - developing new components without programming Modal dialogs Drag and drop Context menus Browser history Customizable tooltips Script in EL expressions and your favorite scripting languages, include but not limited to Java, JavaScript, Ruby and Groovy. Annotations and data binding - accessing database in ZUML with zero Java codes Google Maps, FCKeditor, DOJO and Timeline.

http://www.zkoss.org/

ThinWire® is an LGPL open source, free for commercial use, development framework that allows you to easily build applications for the web that have responsive, expressive & interactive user interfaces without the complexity of the alternatives. While virtually any web application can be built with ThinWire®, when it comes to enterprise applications, the framework excels with its highly interactive and rich user interface components.

The Simple Web Framework (SWF) is an event based framework targeting Struts developers who want to build rich Web applications but do not want to migrate to JSF. The SWF is built upon the same Jakarta commons basis as Struts, but uses a different request processor (front controller.) The SWF event model supports XmlHttpRequest (as well as form/submit) based event posting, similar to VB.NET or JSF, with In place Page Updating (IPU) rather than page reloading. Read the SWF Overview for additional information.

http://swf.dev.java.net/

The Tacos library project provides components and ajax behaviour for the Tapestry java web application framework. Most of the functionality is based on the exceptional dojo javascript library. Thanks dojo!

Its intent is to provide a library of high quality components that may be used in your tapestry application, as well as provide a core infrastructure for using ajax related logic in these and your own components and pages.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tacos

JSON-RPC-Java is a key piece of Java web application middleware that allows JavaScript DHTML web applications to call remote methods in a Java Application Server without the need for page reloading (now refered to as AJAX). It enables a new breed of fast and highly dynamic enterprise Web 2.0 applications (using similar techniques to Gmail and Google Suggests).

http://oss.metaparadigm.com/jsonrpc/