Since learning about AJAX from Shan Shin’s JavaPassion course last year, I have tried several AJAX Frameworks in testing environment and have already made use part of them in production application. These frameworks always lead me to dead end. Most of them are not mature enough, and each of them do have something better and worser.
Here, I would like to make a comparison between several frameworks that I’m really interested in, and probably make use of them in the coming projects. (You know? There are probably more than 100 frameworks available, both commercial and open-source. I guess no one will have time to investigate one by one) Let me first list them out.
Dojo
This is the first framework that I learnt and made use of. It is developed by a group of web application developer, and most of them are well equipped with web technology skills like Javascript, DOM, etc.
YUI (Yahoo! User Interface)
Shan Shin’s course didn’t mention about this framework at the time being. The reason that I know about this comes from Dojo. Many people complains Dojo is slow in terms of performance, and I know some of them switched to YUI due to this reason.
GWT (Google Web Toolkit)
Yet another framework that is developed by big IT company, but this one is not an open-source framework. It provides API and guidelines to help you developing applications.
ZK
Sourceforge.net #1 AJAX Project. I have noticed this framework long time ago, saying that creating AJAX applications without Javascript. This will also be covered in Sang Shing’s course in the coming few months.
In the next part, I will be continuing on the topic by providing table of information.
