Bestehende JavaServer Faces-Komponenten um Ajax-Funktionalität zu erweitern, das geht mittlerweile recht einfach. Und das, ohne sich in eine Ajax-Bibliothek einzuarbeiten, Umwege über Servlets zu machen oder sonstige, nicht auf den JSF-Lifecycle abgestimmte Techniken zu benutzen.
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has attracted a lot of attention lately as a way to make it easier for developers to add AJAX Web 2.0 features to their applications. Like other approaches, the designers of GWT have tried to insulate developers from having to deal with the underlying JavaScript, which implements these features. GWT achieves this goal of simplifying the creation of advanced client-side JavaScript widgets by generating them from Java code.
ICEfaces is an integrated Ajax application framework that enables Java EE application developers to easily create and deploy thin-client rich Internet applications (RIA) in pure Java. ICEfaces is a fully featured product that enterprise developers can use