From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T01:00:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] AJAX pains.

Kev Jackson wrote:

>
>>>
>> Thank you very much, but I don't need a Rails or AJAX sales pitch, I 
>> need relevant advice on how I could make a J2EE server setup. We've 
>> Got Managers *sigh*, and I don't really see my persuasive abilities 
>> good enough to push Rails as the server-side environment, however I'd 
>> -personally- prefer that. (Mind you, not as a team member, becase 
>> none of the other team members have ANY Ruby skills, as opposed to 
>> heavy Java schooling the company provides).
>>
> Ok, you're asking for AJAX for Java/J2EE?
>
> Have you looked at DWR?  It's a servlet (standard Java) that manages a 
> lot of the AJAX complexity for you.  It's nicely integrated with 
> Spring and I've used it to do the standard AJAX things (list boxes 
> fills based on check boxes or other selections etc).
>
> I'd recommend looking at it at the very least, and I'm surprised that 
> you posted here when the top result on Google for Java AJAX is DWR -  
> (although I guess you wanted personal opinions)
>
> Kev
>
Quite so, I need some other assurance than a version number that the 
tool is indeed production quality, rock-stable, and all the other things 
project leaders will want to hear from me when it comes to pushing it 
into the project. Thanks

David Vallner