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Taconite is a J2EE-based framework for simplifying Ajax development. Taconite includes a client-side JavaScript library and custom JSP tags that automate the Ajax request and generating dynamic content. It is created by Ryan Asleson and N. Schutta
It is a framework that simplifies the creation of Ajax enabled Web applications. It's a very lightweight framework that automates the tedious tasks related to Ajax development, such as the creation and management of the XMLHttpRequest object and the creation of dynamic content. Taconite can be used with all modern Web browsers (Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera, and Konqueror, to name a few) and can be used with any server-side technology including Java EE and .Net, although Taconite does have its roots in J2EE.
Advantages:
i) Taconite can be used with any server side technology i.e.either J2EE, .Net, PHP etc. It only needs that the server generates the XML, and taconite will use the same.
ii) Taconite automatically updates the current Web page's DOM based on the XHTML supplied by the developer.
iii) Taconite have an client-side library that even automates the creation of the name/value query string, It will also escape the data. The Taconite only needs the values that need to be sent to the server and it will take care of the rest.
iv) Taconite completely avoids the use of innerHTML.
V) In Taconite you need to specify the dynamic content as HTML within a JSP, and the parser does the rest. Since all of the JavaScript is created by the parser based on the HTML you specify, you don't have to worry about dealing with browser JavaScript incompatibilities. The parser takes care of rest.
Examples:
» Taconite Examples
Download:
» download Taconite here
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