Open Ajax Alliance Partners
Most of the work associated with the Open Ajax Alliance takes place within existing open source organizations like Eclipse and Mozilla.
The Open Ajax Alliance was successfully launched in early 2006 thanks to IBM's strong leadership. Zimbra was one of the cofounders, (1) contributing the Kabuki Ajax Toolkit (AjaxTK); (2) working with IBM to produce an initial integration between AjaxTK and the Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) now part of Eclipse; and (3) helping craft the organization's mission.
All of the Ajax technologies (tooling framework and toolkits) that received endorsement under the Open Ajax Initiative umbrella had to clear two hurdles:
- They had to past muster with the participants - i.e., pass the technical due diligence of representatives from IBM, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, Red Hat, and so on.
- Be committed to open source as the optimal model for delivering innovation and investment protection across client (browser, operating system, device) and server platforms (programming language, application server, operating system, server machine).
All the endorsed technologies were open source in their entirety, and shipped under liberal open source licenses - Apache, MPL, or EPL.
If you are interested in the Open Ajax Alliance, we recommend that you simply join this effort by using or contributing to one or more of these open source Ajax communities that best fit your needs:
- Eclipse - Ajax Tooling, Mozilla integration with Eclipse, Ajax Toolkit Framework (integration with Kabuki/Zimbra AjaxTK, and Dojo)
- Mozilla - Embedded browser (for use within Eclipse), JavaScript debugger, JavaScript Console, DOM inspector
- Zimbra - Kabuki Ajax Toolkit (formerly the Zimbra Ajax Toolkit), available under the Apache or Mozilla Public License
- Dojo - Ajax Toolkit
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