Here's a list of the Ajax components available for the Sun Java Studio Creator 2 IDE with brief descriptions of each component and, where applicable, graphical examples. You can run the Flower Store sample application to see the Ajax components in action.

A 15-minute video series of interviews with experts from Sun and elsewhere to explore how Ajax and Java technology converge to simplify the creation of auto-complete, form validation, data refresh, and other dynamic Web application functions.

Find out how a new feature in JavaServer Faces 1.2 supports multiple render kits in a single application.

The W3C's Web API Working Group is chartered to develop standard APIs for client-side Web Application development and is working on documenting the existing XMLHttpRequest interface, a core component of what is commonly called AJAX. Read about it.

Do Ajax apps present more of a server-side load? The question is dangerous because it’s meaningless and unanswerable. Read an article on sys-con about the provocative weblog entry by Sun's Tim Bray.

Gosling Outlines the Trouble With AJAX
Q&A: James Gosling believes Sun is leading the way to enabling developers to incorporate Asynchronous JavaScript and XML components into web applications. But building those components is another story. In an interview with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft, Gosling discusses some of Sun's highs and lows in the software business. Read the article.

These components leverage the Dojo Toolkit and make use of the JavaServer Faces PhaseListener approach for serving up JavaScript files and handling Ajax requests on the JavaServer Faces server. This approach was innovated by the Blueprints and JavaServer Faces teams and generalized in the Shale Remoting library, which these components leverage to great effect.

jMaki is all about enabling developers to use JavaScript in their Java-based applications—either as a JSP tag library or a JavaServer Faces component. jMaki uses the best parts of Java and JavaScript to deliver rich Ajax style widgets. See the press release, and then check out jMaki in action on java.net.

Find out how you can build Ajax-enabled web applications for your end users with the Java Studio Creator IDE. This page provides a complete list of resources.

Announcing the Java BluePrints early access Java Petstore 2.0 Reference Application and see how the Java EE 5 Platform can be used to design and develop an Ajax-enabled Web 2.0 application. It comes with full source-code available under a BSD-style license, so you can experiment with it and use it in your own applications.