I may get boos on this, but I've thought about creating a hand-rolled AJAX plugin. I like the available JS frameworks like Prototype/Dojo/JQuery, but it does seem like there are a lot of gotchas with any one of them. Having written some XHR processing in vanilla javascript, sometimes I wonder how hard it would be to maintain a tag library specifically developed to integrate with Struts2... The benefit would be in maintenance, since it would be more closely tied to the development of Struts2 (and possibly performance, though a lot of work was done in the dojo-plugin), but the disadvantage would be that a lot of JS code would need developed up front. Another thought I've had on the topic is to separate the concerns within the AJAX components, you have a set of widgets (tabbedpanel, divs, autocompleter) and a set of components related to processing (JSON, XHR, etc). It would be great to make these two things separated to the point that the YUI widgets could be dropped in and combined with the Prototype processing so that the YUI tabbedpanel could be populated by JQuery calls... The goal would be to give a somewhat savvy AJAX developer the freedom to pull in the widgets they like combined with the JS code style they prefer.
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