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Ajax Security: Restricting Access to your Ajax Services - (Found September 17, 2008 )

Greg Murray blogs on how to prevent JSONP techniques from hijacking your services by restricting service access.
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gmurray71/archive/2006/08/restricting_acc.html

NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 Now Available - (Found September 17, 2008 )

The NetBeans Visual Web Pack (derived from the award-winning Sun Java Studio Creator software) lets you rapidly and visually build standards-based web applications using JavaServer Faces and Ajax components.
http://www.netbeans.org/products/visualweb/

Insights From Jesse James Garrett, the Guy who Coined the Term Ajax - (Found September 17, 2008 )

Ed Ort blogs from the Web Builder 2.0 Conference: Ajax is a design pattern more than a set of technologies, and other technologies will likely supplant it.
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edort/archive/2006/12/insights_from_t_1.html

Mashups a Big Deal at the Web 2.0Ajax World Conference - (Found September 17, 2008 )

Ed Ort's report from Caesar's Palace gives you a glimpse into the new world of Ajax and Web 2.0.
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edort/archive/2006/12/web_builder_20.html

Hands-On Java EE 5 - (Found September 17, 2008 )

What's the best way to introduce Ajax into your legacy application This article series guides you through Ajax implementations, starting with writing the necessary code by hand, then using an open-source toolkit, and finally implementing JavaServer Faces components.
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/hands-on/

NetBeans IDE 5.5 is Released - (Found September 17, 2008 )

Check out the new Mobility Pack, Profiler Pack, Enterprise Pack, CC++ Pack (Beta 3), and a technology preview of the Visual Web Pack. NetBeans 5.5 supports the Java EE 5.0 platform, including the Java Persistence, EJB 3 and JAX-WS 2.0 specifications.
http://www.netbeans.org

Java BluePrints for Ajax-Enabled Web 2.0 Applications - (Found September 17, 2008 )

Sean Brydon reminds us of this still very relevant JavaOne talk on how to build a web application on the Java EE 5 platform. Discussed are the design choices and decisions made for the new Java Pet Store 2.0.
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sean_brydon/archive/2006/10/free_online_jav.html

Ajax Experience Conference - (Found September 17, 2008 )

This conference features over fifty technically focused sessions across three full days spanning four parallel tracks with over twenty five speakers.
http://theajaxexperience.com/

New Technologies for Ajax and Web Application Development: Project jMaki, Project Dynamic Faces, and Project Phobos - (Found September 17, 2008 )

Read the first in a series of introductory articles about new projects that make developing interactive and dynamic web applications easier.
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/webapp_1/

The Zen of jMaki - (Found September 17, 2008 )

Enjoy Greg Murray's Javapolis presentation on jMaki with basic examples, history, mindset and motivation.
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gmurray71/archive/2006/12/the_zen_of_jmak.html