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Some nifty Javascript toolkits are flying around. The list below contains the best of them.

Prototype

Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.

Dojo Toolkit

The Dojo Toolkit is an Open-Source javascript library used for rapid development of robust, scalable, rich web projects and applications … with Drag and Drop, Animations, Ajax, Events and other goodies.

mootools

MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.

Ext JS

Ext is a client-side, JavaScript framework for building web applications.

script.aculo.us

script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.

Yahoo! User Interface Library

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources.

jQuery

jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.

Silverlight: AJAX is now an Endangered Species

With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.

Elias Torres, Wing Yung and Ben Szekely have created an ATOM-Server called Queso with a little interface using AJAX:

Queso is a J2EE-style application that implements the Atom Protocol specification currently in draft-09 atop an RDF server called Boca (the restaurant’s name is Boca Grande, a.k.a. Big Mouth) using Henry Story’s Atom OWL for the model and of course opening up a SPARQL endpoint to query the contents the store.

The actual data-storing takes place using RDF-Data. But the data is inserted by the user or the machine using Atom-syntax:

Content is inserted into the system is by posting Atom entries. The entries are stored as RDF (converted via Atom OWL by Henry Story), so their content and metadata is accessible via SPARQL queries. [...]

But test yourself under http://abdera.watson.ibm.com:8080/browser/. Its very rudimental so far, but looks promising.

Just read. A toolkit for developing AJAX-applications. Runs under Java. Given to us by the friendly Google-guys. ;)

The first own conference for the hip technology AJAX: AJAXWorld.

Takes place in california and calls for papers until June 30, 2006.