Sun joins OpenAJAX Alliance and the Dojo Foundation

Sun joins OpenAJAX Alliance and the Dojo Foundation

Networking giants Sun Microsystems has confirmed that they are joining the OpenAJAX Alliance and the Dojo Foundation. This would further boost their AJAX technology efforts as the market is increasingly moving to this technology based applications.

The OpenAJAX Alliance now boast of around 30 member companies and organizations and includes some big names including IBM, BEA Systems, and Oracle. Now, Sun would be collaborating with the members to pursue its goals. The group identifies best practices and tries to reach on consensus on programming models around a reference implementation for tools interoperability.

The company had initially avoided joining this alliance because of two primary reasons. Dan Roberts, Sun director of marketing for developer tools said that they were originally invited to this group by IBM but the company sent the invitation to the wrong group in the company. This led to some confusion, as they feared that OpenAJAX was too skewed toward the Eclipse open source tools platform.

They discussed their issues with IBM and the clarified their doubts. Roberts added: “What we want to do is ensure with the rest of the OpenAJAX Alliance that AJAX technologies are patent-free, royalty-free, and freely available to developers.”