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To consume external Web services in Atlas, you build a server-based Web service proxy to the service. The good news is that you can leverage Visual Studio and Atlas features to handle most of the work.
With its Swing-like development framework and its awe-inspiring compiler/debugger, the Google Web Toolkit eases AJAX development.
Apache Shale, the newest sibling of the Struts framework, leverages JavaServer Faces to enable componentized presentation-tier development. Get started with Shale's Dialog Manager, Validations, and JNDI services.
With the release of the Java Standard Edition 6.0 Beta, Java developers no longer need to contend with clamp-on solutions or Java Native Interface (JNI) to make their applications interact with desktop products and features. These desktop-integration features now are part of the core.