Treffer: Swords sharpened for AJAX projects.

The article focuses on JavaScript tools competing with AJAX, commonly expanded as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, a JavaScript code. Any technology aiming to get established will typically offer a mix of low-level tools, platform-tailored environments, component libraries and full-blown abstractions that package the details for greater convenience. Toolmakers have brought forth all these options since AJAX label emerged. The latest Version 6.0 upgrade to the Antechinus JavaScript Editor, from C Point Pty Ltd., leaves the impression that mere JavaScript needs nothing more than the simplest text editor to exploit it. The $50 C Point tool is compact and versatile and it offers a strong value proposition to developers who are used to full-blown environments for Java or .Net languages and want to become more conversant with JavaScript capabilities. JavaScript editing aids were also a noteworthy addition in version 5.0 release of JetBrains Inc.'s IntelliJ Idea environment for Java. It included JavaScript code completion and on-the-fly error identification like that found in most Java and .Net editors. SlickEdit Inc.'s multilingual SlickEdit editor also provides JavaScript aids.