Getting into the AJAX mode

I looked through some of the AJAX technologies and few of them caught my attention were ZK, GWT (Google Web Toolkit), and Echo2.

I downloaded the ZK demo examples. ZK is a server side AJAX-based engine which uses XUL (XML User Interface Language) and XHTML components to develop rich UI components. ZK also supports markup language ZUML (ZK User-interface Markup Languagae) to design user interfaces without programming.

ZK is purely a presentation tier solution, keeping the business tier and data tier intact. It can co-exist with existing technology like JSP and work seemlessly. It has ability to integrate with FCKeditor and JFreeChart in a very short amount of time.


It is #1 Active project on Sourceforge. It was worth exploring the capabilities.