Commercial Ajax frameworks

[jch02140]

Hi,

I am new here and I am wondering if anyone has used/heard of the following Commercial Ajax frameworks. I am hoping to gather opinions which will be part of me decision factors on which one to purchase...

http://www.smartclient.com

http://www.backbase.com

http://www.bindows.net

http://www.tibco.com/software/rich_internet_application/default.jsp

http://www.visualwebgui.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx

Thanks in advanced.

Best Regards,
Johney C.

 

[BabyJeffy]

Why pay? I suggest you take a serious look at both Prototype and Dojo. Prototype recently hit 1.5 and had a massive documentation effort providing excellent coverage of their API. Dojo has has some success (it is supported by AOL) but it is still massively under-documented (especially the event model code) and IMHO not a patch on Prototype.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[1DMF]

Also depending on what you are trying to acheive, there isn't always a requirement to use a framework.

It takes very little Javascript to make an AJAX call and handle the returned data, so a few simple functions may be all you need!

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[kaht]

I agree with 1DMF, there is so little to learn about AJAX - there's a very small set of built in methods and would only take about an hour of googling to understand it fully. No sense in paying for something so simple.....

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