More than seven Ajax products to watch out for

Harshad Harshad Oak posted an entry with seven Ajax toolkits / frameworks to watch out for ... Google Web Toolkit, Dojo, Yahoo! User Interface Library, Direct Web Remoting, Spry framework for Ajax, Mochikit, and Script.aculo.us.

Some of them I agree, some not ... and it's missing a few too.

GWT may succeed just because it's Google; it's nice and intuitive for Java Developers, but somewhat limited. We should expect major improvements in this framework over the next few months.

Dojo is the best JavaScript library out there... really nicely thought, OOP, with many Widgets and Ajax support. It is also being used by the Open Ajax Effort, which is developing an IDE built over Eclipse...
The Y! UIL has great patterns and their userbase is growing. I haven't followed it closely, but I wouldn't bet money on this one.

DRW is being developed by Joe Walker. He's a very bright guy, but being alone in this game doesn't help... DRW 2.0 is coming soon and has built in capabilities for reverse Ajax / comet and JSF interfaces... Up till now DWR was the most widely used library in the Java world, but GWT has a greater chance to succeed.

Spry is an attempt from Adobe to get in the game. IMO, unless Adobe builds this in ColdFusion somehow, they have no business here. It's a nice framework, somewhat limited at the moment, not advertised, but no where nearly as mature as many other frameworks...

Mochikit is too small ... it  will not grow as fast as needed and disappear over time.

Script.aculo.us is a nice low level animation library. It doesn't do Ajax and shouldnt be on this list. While it's a great library, used by RoR and will be around forever, it doesn't belong in this list.

In addition to all these products, we're missing some big players! Microsoft for instance. Atlas will be by far the most widely used Ajax framework ... I am not a Microsoft fan myself, but Altas was very well thought and it's a great product. Also, Laszlo, Tibco, Zimbra AT, Backbase, are larger than many libraries mentioned in this list... All of them are mature products, some are commercial, but you deserve to be on this list.