With the continued evolution of AJAX enabled technologies which dramatically simplify how to build AJAX applications, will the term "AJAX" simply wither away as ALL Web technologies will eventually support AJAX and the novelty of rich client Web development will disappear. This presentation will review the history of AJAX technology and review the latest in component-based AJAX technologies such as Google's Web Toolkit (GWT), and Oracle ADF Faces rich client components where the developers needn't be JavaScript experts.

Speaker Bio: Chris Schalk is a Principal Product Manager and Java Evangelist for Oracle's application server and development tools division. Chris's primary expertise is Web application development and works to define the overall set of Web development features for Oracle JDeveloper including JavaServer Faces and ADF Faces. Chris also serves as Oracle's representative to the OpenAJAX alliance. Chris is also the co-author of JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference published through McGraw-Hill Osborne (isbn: 0072262400). Chris also maintains a popular Blog on J2EE Web development at: http://www.jroller.com/page/cschalk

On January 8, 2007 SYS-CON Events announced the "charter sponsors" of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East, which included; Laszlo Systems (Diamond Sponsor), JackBe (Platinum Sponsor), Google (Gold Sponsor), Sun Microsystems (Silver Sponsor), Parasoft (Silver Sponsor), Lightstreamer (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor),  IT Mill (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor), and FrogLogic (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor).

First International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo which took place on October 1-3, 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, Calfornia was sponsored by Adobe, Amazon, Apress, Backbase, ComponentArt, Cynergy Systems, Google, Helmi Technologies, IBM, ICEsoft, ILOG, Infragistics, JackBe, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, OASIS, Parasoft, Sun Microsystems, telerik, TIBCO, U7 Web Technologies, Visible Measures, Zapatec; including media sponsors AJAX Matters, AJAXWorld Magazine, BZ Media, ColdFusion Developer's Journal, DevtownStation.com, Eclipse Developer's Journal, Eclipse Review, Enterprise Open Source Magazine, Integration Developer News, ITtoolbox.com, Java Developer's Journal, LinuxWorld.com, Methods & Tools, Network World, Open Enterprise Trends, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, SD Times, Software Test & Performance, SOA Web Services Journal, SYS-CON.TV, Web 2.0 Journal, and Web Developer's & Designer's Journal.