The OpenAjax Alliance plans to vote on its OpenAjax Hub 1.0 in December and expects to release it shortly afterward, an official with the organization said Monday.The alliance tackles issues with interoperability in the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) market. Version 1.0 of the hub enables use of multiple AJAX toolkits on the same Web page. Version 1.1 of the hub, due in 2008, adds capabilities for secure mashups. “The OpenAjax Hub 1.1 will go beyond 1.0 because it will do publish/subscribe across browser frames and that will allow you to sandbox a third-party, untrusted component within a frame,” said Jon Ferrraiolo, a Web architect at IBM who is in charge of operations for the alliance. Ferraiolo presented on OpenAjax Alliance at the Web Builder 2.0 conference in Las Vegas.The alliance has not yet started any formal activity dedicated to offline AJAX yet, Ferraiolo said. There are Google APIs that enable this but some may be reluctant to adopt them; the alliance possibly could come up with a standard API for this, he said. Software Development