AjaxTags Part-1

In my previous articles, Using Ajax with PHP and Using Ajax with Java Technologies, I tried to discuss the JavaScript code segment required for sending Asynchronous HTTP requests and getting responses. AjaxTags is an open source project that provides JSP tags for developing Ajax based web applications in Java technologies without adding JavaScript codes in your JSP pages. In short, AjaxTags is a set of JSP tags that simplify the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) technology in Java Server Pages.

Installing AjaxTags:

In this article we will try to use AjaxTags in JSP pages, but first we need to install AjaxTags.
To use the tag library, you'll need the following:
1. JDK 1.5+
2. Servlet container running Servlets 2.3+ and JSP 1.0+: I’ll use Tomcat server.
3. Download and copy Prototype (prototype.js) from http://www.prototypejs.org/assets/2007/6/20/prototype.js , currently AjaxTags depends upon version 1.5.0
4. Download and copy Scriptaculous library from http://script.aculo.us/dist/scriptaculous-js-1.7.0.zip , currently AjaxTags depends upon version 1.7.0
5. Download and copy OverLIBMWS library from http://www.macridesweb.com/oltest/overlibmws.zip

Note: AjaxTags distribution also includes JavaScript files, CSS files and other libraries.

After downloading the binary distribution of AjaxTags, you need to extract the compressed (.zip) file and copy the ajaxtags-1.3.jar in your WEB-INF/lib directory. This distribution also has a .tld ... [Read Full Article]


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