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Picking an AJAX Toolkit

Rich internet applications fuelled by AJAX are popping up all over the Web. These applications have ignited a massive investment in AJAX toolkits. The good news is when you're ready to start working with AJAX there are many AJAX toolkits that can simplify your development tasks. The bad news is when you're ready to start working with AJAX there are many AJAX toolkits and you need to select the toolkits that are right for your application.

This presentation will examine what constitutes a good AJAX toolkit and provide an introduction to many of the popular AJAX toolkits highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. By the end of this presentation you should have a good grasp of the AJAX toolkit landscape and where to start building your AJAX application.

Lawrence Mandel, Software Developer, IBM Rational Software

Lawrence Mandel, a software developer at the IBM Toronto Laboratory, is a committer and the documentation lead for the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) and is leading the Apache Woden project, which is creating a reference implementation of WSDL 2.0. Lawrence is also actively working on a new enterprise portfolio management product at IBM Rational and is authoring a book about Java Web Application Development with Eclipse with Naci Dai and Arthur Ryman.

Jeffrey Liu, Software Developer, IBM Rational Software

Jeffrey is a software developer at the IBM Toronto Lab. He is responsible for the development of the Rational Portfolio Manager. Jeffrey joined IBM in 2001 after graduating with distinction from the University of British Columbia with a B.A.Sc in Computer Engineering, Commerce minor.