Sun Microsystems’s jMaki 1.0, an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) framework providing a lightweight model for building JavaScript-centric, AJAX-enabled web applications, is set to premiere at the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara, Calif. next Tuesday. Web 2.0 applications can be built via jMakiDevelopers with jMaki can develop applications using Java, Ruby, PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) and Phobos. AJAX-style widgets from popular JavaScript libraries such as Dojo also can be used with jMaki. The “j” in jMaki stands for JavaScript while “Maki” means wrap in Japanese. Greg Murry, the Sun AJAX architect, writes about jMaki in his blog. Software Development