AJAX was the name of the game in app dev this year, but a clash of business rules titans made news, too We gave the Web front end plenty of attention in 2006, with roundups of lean freebie AJAX tools including open-source offerings from Dojo, Open Rico and Prototype, and Zimbra ; rich enterprise AJAX IDEs from Backbase, MB Technologies, JackBe, and Tibco; AJAX controls for .Net from Infragistics and telerik; not to mention a fresh look at a charter member of the rich Internet application “old guard,” the Flash-fueled Adobe Flex 2.To view summary evaluations of every Application Development product from 2006, download the PDF of this section from InfoWorld IT Exec-Connect.More 2006 Year in Reviews: **IT Exec-Connect members: Download all the PDFs for the entire 2006 Year in Reviews free. Not a member yet? Register here for free, then discuss Year in Reviews at the InfoWorld Connect blog. **Visit the Product Guide to view and compare all reviews from the InfoWorld Test Center**Back to 2006 Year in Reviews Software Development