Squinting at IBM

Sometimes I take my glasses off to see better. I find that reducing visibility can focus my attention on the important stuff, although I hasten to add that it works better for viewing websites than for, say, driving a car.

Taking off my glasses and squinting at IBM's Java Technology page, I see the term AJAX appearing boldly and frequently.

There are two multi-part articles on IBM's Java page labeled Editor's Picks, both about AJAX, and there's a link to an article on the plan of Sun to integrate a lot of external AJAX components into JSF. That AJAX is hot is not news, but it is interesting that Sun wants to impose some standardization and commoditization onto a loosely-defined and web-standards-breaking bundle of technologies dreamed up in the shower by a guy named Jesse James.

Posted by Mike Swaine at 01:53 AM  Permalink