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Level: Intermediate

Tim McIntire, Consultant, Freelance Writer

29 Nov 2006

The Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) is a core piece of the new Open Ajax initiative, which aims to increase accessibility to the powerful Web programming technique through the Eclipse Foundation. The ATF extends the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) by adding an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) development environment for a variety of open source Ajax tool kits, including Dojo, Zimbra, and Rico. This article includes a HelloWorld example in which you install and configure the ATF, then use Eclipse and Dojo to create a basic Web application.

This is a follow-up to my May 2006 introduction to the Open Ajax initiative titled "Two tools bring Ajax to Eclipse's Ajax Toolkit Framework" and the upcoming ATF (see Resources). Since that time, the project has moved from announcement to an alphaWorks version to an active Eclipse project with a V0.1 release.

The ATF sits on top of the Eclipse WTP, which is widely used in the Web development community. The WTP extends Eclipse by adding tools for developing Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Web applications.

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