IBM's framework supports multiple AJAX runtime tools and can be used to develop and debug applications. In addition, San Mateo, Calif.-based Zimbra Inc., another member of the collaborative, said it will make its AJAX runtime tool kit available to the community under Apache and Mozilla public licenses.

The remaining members of the Open AJAX group include the Dojo Foundation, Google Inc., the Eclipse Foundation, Laszlo Systems Inc., Mozilla, Openwave Systems Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Zend Technologies Ltd.