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• DWR makes interportlet messaging with Ajax easy by Sami Salkosuo   - [Clicks: 35]
  Many developers are looking to use Ajax technologies to improve the user experience of Web-based applications, but Ajax programming can be a tricky task. The open source Direct Web Remoting (DWR) library can make Ajax development easier for Java developers by automatically transforming Java classes into JavaScript classes. In this article, you'll learn how how to use DWR and JSR-168-compliant portlets to build an Ajax application quickly and easily.
  [Includes sample code]
  http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ajaxportlet/index.html - Jul, 2006
• A Google Maps mash-up by Sumit Bando, Darius Kasad   - [Clicks: 39]
  Google's easy-to-use mapping API has created an explosion of map "mash-ups," applications that add features or data to Google's map interface. Whether the mash-ups display store locations, gasoline prices, or time and weather on a map, ultimately it's the data that makes these mash-ups interesting. This article describes how to access external data via SOAP and integrate that data with the Google Maps API using Direct Web Remoting, outlining one possible framework for map mash-up applications backed by Java on the server side.
  [Includes source code]
  http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2006/jw-0116-google.html - Jan, 2006

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