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 [log in to unmask] Ithaca, NY