Nitobi Joins OpenAJAX Alliance

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Thursday, August 3, 2006; 07:11 AM

Nitobi announced it has joined the OpenAJAX Alliance--an industry wide organization, in an effort to help revolutionize rich internet applications (RIA). Members such as Adobe, Ajaxian, Sun Microsystems & many more of the OpenAJAX Alliance, will be working collaboratively to ensure interoperability between Ajax tools and provide a great user experience across the web.

OpenAJAX Alliance was established earlier this year to develop formal specifications for AJAX technology. Emerged from the intent of improving end user productivity, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a development technique leveraging technologies already found in browsers, so plug-ins are not required. Its impact is big. Many tools and solutions have since been developed & deployed. Compatibility between commercial and open source AJAX tools must be enforced. This is where members of the coalition stepped up in hopes to come to a consensus on AJAX programming models and best practices. One of OpenAJAX’s first consolidations was the modification of the definition of AJAX in Wikipedia. With key executives from many influential technology companies, it’s no wonder that the list of members is still growing.

As part of its commitment to OpenAJAX, Nitobi said it will be contributing towards setting the standards of AJAX implementation, including defining the OpenAJAX vocabulary and architectural blueprint; defining integration specifications across different AJAX toolkits and ensuring the ability to mix with XML markup.