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If you are a python coder who doesn’t like JavaScript and wishes she could stay in python land more, maybe pyjamas is the framework for you.

It is an early stage port of sorts of GWT.

Given that a lot of python goes on at Google, they may be interested in this themselves, and it would be really nice if the underlying JavaScript was shared where it made sense:

• Shared ugly browser handling fluff
• Java oddity handling
• Python oddity handling

Then other languages and platforms could come to the party and play too.

At a quiet time during my 40th birthday extravaganza, I finally had the chance to finish reading Practical Ajax Projects with Java Technology by Frank Zammetti from Apress. I’ve read enough good, hands-on Apress books by now to get a warm and fuzzy feeling anytime I see their distinctive bumble bee black and yellow covers, so I came to this volume hoping to find an Ajax treatment in that mold. The result isn’t an unqualified success in that regard — it goes broad rather than deep — but if you’re an experienced Java developer looking to get caught up on some of the Ajax developments of the last year and a half, this book is for you.

The book assumes a good foundation in server-side Java development, but little or no experience with the technologies that make up Ajax. Part 1 of the book, which is comprised of Chapters 1-3, is an excellent review of Ajax technology and architecture along with a basic review of Java webapp development. Part 2 consists of seven chapters, each of which develops an Ajax application.

Read more of the review here.

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