Builder.com has an article about JBoss’s recent project typing AJAX and Java together. Their open source framework is called Seam. Google has a similar AJAX toolkit for Java programmers as well.
Seam needs an application based server in order to run. This looks like another tool that will help Java programmers create Web 2.0 applications.
Microsoft will release their product for ASP.NET and Java has quite a few framework projects as well. Of course there are many JavaScript libraries such as Dojo, Prototype, etc out there with tools to help developers create more efficient applications.
By building off standards I think this will help the web community. It will pull more people onto the same page and it will make it easier to use each others applications as well as knowledge.
