JavaScript toolkits, standards, etc.

not listed in any order AND only a SAMPLE

 

• Dojo http://dojotoolkit.org - usability, interface
• Rico http://openrico.org - drag and drop action, widgets
• Scriptaculous http://script.aculo.us - animation, drage and drop
• SACK http://www.twilightuniverse.com/projects/sack/ - AJAX code kit
• JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) - http://json.org - text format to exchange data, easier to manipulate as converts to JavaScript object.
• Direct Web Remoting (DWR) - http://directwebremoting.org/dwr/ - access Java on server from JavaScript on client.
• SWATO - https://swato.dev.java.net/doc/html/ - same as DWR

 

Many companies like Yahoo and Google provide AJAX apis

i.e. http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ajax/index.html

http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/