The OpenAjax Alliance is a consortium of companies that are active in the
AJAX industry. It was founded on May 15, 2006, concluded a governing Members
Agreement in October 2006, and now has more than 80 member organizations,
including industry giants such as Adobe, BEA, Cisco, ESRI, Fidelity, Google,
IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Oracle, SAP, and Sun. The alliance's home page at
www.openajax.org shows the full list of members.
The alliance pursues both technical and marketing initiatives. Its technical
initiatives are centered on AJAX interoperability. Its marketing initiatives
focus on educational materials that help IT managers and Web developers be
successful with AJAX.
The OpenAjax Alliance doesn't collect any fees from its members and therefore
has no dedicated staff. Al... (more)
The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source
projects, and companies using AJAX that are dedicated to the successful
adoption of open and interoperable AJAX-based Web technologies. This article
introduces the alliance's first major technical product, OpenAjax Hub 1.0.
The OpenAjax Hub is a set of standard JavaScript that, when included with an
AJAX-powered Web ... (more)
This article provides an introduction to some of the security threats
associated with AJAX technologies, particularly when used within mashup
scenarios, and then offers a list of recommended best practices.
Understanding the Same-Origin Policy
One of the foundations of Web security is the "same-origin" policy, which is
widely implemented by Web browsers, including the most popular ones (e.g... (more)
What does the Ajax community want from future browsers? How are these
different requests prioritized? Web developers have done amazing things with
Ajax for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applications, but what barriers need to be
removed to enable the next generation of browser-based innovations? The
future of Ajax runtime environments matters more than ever today.
In late 2007, OpenAjax Allian... (more)