JBoss Seam knits AJAX and Java together
JBoss has joined in the AJAX game with the launch of an open-source framework for AJAX applications called Seam.
The framework, written in Java and released under the LGPL, is aimed at making developing interactive web applications easier by providing a standard set of UI widgets and back-end classes. The toolkit also contains components to make programming in a Web environment easier by taking care of session management and application workflow.
Several AJAX frameworks have been released recently, notably the Google Web Toolkit. However, as yet there’s little effort to produce a vendor-neutral standard for such frameworks in any language. Without a framework like Seam or GWT, you have to write your own client-side code and server-side components to support them. However, GWT isn’t entirely open source, containing one binary-only component.