At 02:55 PM 3/17/2008, you wrote:
>My general philosophy is still always to put as _little_ Javascript as
>possible. Thus my way-too-clever idea to have some javascript which
>actually sends the Google (or similar) API response back to my server
>via AJAX for _real_ processing. :)
>
>But if you DO want or need to do javascript-heavy stuff, I _highly_
>encourage you to take a look at some of the various Javascript client
>libraries that are out there, like Prototype.

I was playing with another one today: jQuery.  It's very slick.  I've
been developing a web application that uses Spring Web MVC and a
services oriented architecture and it plugged in rather nicely.

John Fereira
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