Ajax and web frameworks

[Sikander]

Hi all,
I am developing this web based application which uses struts as the web framework.I hav been hit by the ajax bug and i want to use that tech in my application.Wanted to know the support of ajax in the different availabe web frameworks.

thnx.

[Sonny Gill]

I remember reading that Wicket has native support for AJAX, and Tapestry has some components that support AJAX as well.

[Sikander]

any idea if struts/spring has proper support for ajax?

[Sonny Gill]

To the best of my knowledge, Struts/Spring does not have any build in support for AJAX. But there may be extensions or libraries that make it easy to use AJAX through Struts/Spring.

Hava a look at Direct Web Remoting project, it might be what you are looking for.

[Junilu Lacar]

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[Wagner Danda Da Silva Filho]

Stripes is a struts-like web framework that have some AJAX built-in features:

http://stripes.mc4j.org/confluence/display/stripes/Home

[Jason Carreira]

Originally posted by muinsh sharif:
Hi all,
I am developing this web based application which uses struts as the web framework.I hav been hit by the ajax bug and i want to use that tech in my application.Wanted to know the support of ajax in the different availabe web frameworks.

thnx.

WebWork 2.2 has an Ajax theme for our UI widgets. This lets you do things like have a DIV which is automatically refreshed from the server every 10 seconds, for example. We use the Dojo toolkit and make heavy use of the dojo.event.topic functionality which lets you set up publish/subscribe topics in your page. This lets you have some parts of your page generate events and have n other parts of the page get the event and update themselves or do some other action, all without having to hard-wire the pieces together. It makes for a nice, loosely coupled way of building in-page AJAX applications with reusable components.