JWAX: A New AJAX Development Framework in the Works

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Wednesday, April 26, 2006; 04:17 AM

JWAX is an event driven component framework modeled after Swing, SWT and other component based systems for AJAX development.

JWAX is in its early stages of development, and is currently accepting new coders.  A live demo is available at http://www.jwax.org/main/index.jsp. Release 0.02b  is listed as a sourceforge project at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156851.

JWAX has Object Oriented Architecture.  It can be leveraged from client side AJAX or dynamic UI systems for development.  It utilizes a render kit model for client code generation and provides a set of common base UI components with plans to support complex components in the future.

 JWAX Features

    -Object Oriented Architecture
    -Event Delegation Model
    -Component Inheritance and Aggregation Support
    -Cross Browser Compatibility w/ RenderKits
    -Aspect Oriented Rendering of Components


JWAX architecture

JWAX architecture is a component framework much like Swing, SWT, etc. It leverages an event delegation model to trigger and listen for component events. The underlying component model is rendered based on the client output type. So it's easy to customize the component view to a browser, technology or look and feel based on the renderkit chosen.

There is also support for async component rendering and server communications using technologies such as AJAX.