AJAX also needs standardization, and Sun's participation in these efforts makes sense, Governor said.

Sun also is announcing a preview of a plug-in for the NetBeans IDE to support the jMaki (https://ajax.dev.java.net/) framework, an open source JavaScript framework for the Java platform. jMaki will help boost developer productivity, Sun said. Sun also recently launched two AJAX Web portals, at http://developers.sun.com/ajax (http://developers.sun.com/ajax) and http://java.sun.com/javascript (http://java.sun.com/javascript).

Sun also is offering Sun BluePrintsAJAX-enabled JavaServer Faces Components. The components function with Sun Java Studio Creator.