Chris Degiere and Associates

I love the Spring Framework. It’s pretty much changed my enterprise Java development. I’ve also ditched Struts for Spring MVC to keep my technology stack simple.

A new project calls for Ajax enabled pages so I’ve been researching AJAX integration with Spring MVC.

Here are some references as a starting point:

• Mangeability’s Open Source AJAX Frameworks with Server-Side Java Support
• Ajax Pattern’s Java Ajax Frameworks

These articles both point to promising choices for a pre-existing framework:

• Spring Modules XT Framework
  
• Ajax and the Spring Framework with TIBCO General Interface
• DWR and Spring

Honerable mention (but probably not headed in this direction):

• Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Pretty cool, but overkill for this project
• Also Using the GWTSpringController and GWTHandler
• OpenLaszlo. Also interesting, also overkill

I’ll post my final pick and why when finished.