The company is looking to submit the kit to an open source organization similar to its previous JSF submission to the Apache MyFaces (http://myfaces.apache.org/)project. The goal is to continue working through MyFaces but the new submissions has not yet been accepted, Farrell said.

The AJAX donation will occur in two months.

Also at JavaOne, Oracle will announce shipment of a reference implementation of the Java Persistence Architecture (JPA), which features persistence APIs for the EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) specification. Developers can use this implementation to code with EJB 3 and perform object-relational mapping between databases and Java objects, Farrell said.

"You can just write Java code to this library and still be able to pull data out of your database into your Java objects," said Farrell. Developers are spared from having to write JDBC code.

Oracle's JPA implementation is derived from the company's TopLink Essentials (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/index.html)technology for object-relational mapping. The reference implementation will be downloadable at the Oracle Technology Network (http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html)Web site on May 16.