Thumbs up: Ajax Takes A Step Forward with Dojo 1.0

The grandfather of Ajax toolkits, Dojo, just celebrated its 1.0 release. The announcement was covered by the creators of Dojo on the Sitepen blog, as well as on the Ajaxian website. With over 58 different Ajax and Rich Internet Application frameworks to choose from today, the Ajax community has been too fragmented to get serious adoption at the enterprise level.

Dojo 1.0 may not be the ultimate winner of the Ajax wars, but it sure sets a high bar for any toolkit that wants to beat it as a viable RIA toolkit for the enterprise. I wrote more of my thoughts about what it will take for Ajax to be enterprise ready here.