"What we have illustrated is a way to interoperate between a .NET service and a jMaki Ajax application using SOAP as an underlying communication protocol. With the growing popularity of Web 2.0, ReSTful web services supported by Yahoo, Flickr and many others have become quite popular. A ReST-style web service is accessed through URI-addressable semantics of the HTTP protocol, which significantly simplifies integration effort on the client side. As a result, the Web 2.0 services interoperability between .NET and Java stacks is gradually shifting towards ReST."
"Project jMaki gives you a simple way to include Ajax-enabled widgets in your web applications. (Ajax is a technology that includes but is not limited to Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.) The jMaki technology does this by allowing you to wrap widgets in a JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology tag handler or a JavaServer Faces component. By wrapping a widget in this way, you can encapsulate it in a modular unit and also give it the benefits of any JSP tag handler or JavaServer Faces component."
"This is the first in a series of introductory articles about new projects that make developing interactive and dynamic web applications easier. Project jMaki and Project Dynamic Faces make it easier to add Ajax functionality -- a technology that includes but is not limited to Asynchronous JavaScript and XML -- to your web applications. The Phobos project allows you to develop web applications using a scripting language, which can allow for more rapid development."
