Siu Lun

I’ve been looking for a good Java toolkit (a.k.a AJAX) for a while now, the first I saw was Backbase, it looks extremely good but it’s a commercial product. Next I saw was mochikit, it seems very good but funtionality wise it is behind some others I saw. Then I found prototype and OpenRico. This seems interesting as Prototype is the framework and OpenRico is a toolkit, not only that, recently I found something called Lightbox which is built on Prototype too and not to mention script.aculo.us

I thought that combination seems the best bet to go for, but then I found Dojo toolkit. Funtionality wise this seems the most impressive – at least judging from the demo.

Today is the first day I actually try and implement it and I was using Dojo as it had a tree view which I wanted to use for the ICMA Centre website, but it took me an entire day and I still haven’t been able to make it work.

Anyway, I’m going try and doing something with AJAX on Citisky v2 now. I’ll report back some more findings later