Project Phobos

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Project Phobos
Developer(s) Oracle Corporation
Stable release
0.6.3
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in Java 6 or Higher
Type Server-side Scripting Framework
License CDDL version 1.0 and GPL v2 license
Website https://phobos.java.net/

Project Phobos is a lightweight, scripting-friendly, web application environment running on the Java platform.

These include a fully featured debugger; wizards to help you get started faster; a palette of JmakiAjax widgets that can be dropped on a page and the ability to generate a standard web application for deployment on any servlet container or Java EE application server. [1]

Ajax is a set of web development techniques using many web technologies on the client side to create asynchronous web applications. With Ajax, web applications can send and retrieve data from a server asynchronously without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. By decoupling the data interchange layer from the presentation layer, Ajax allows web pages and, by extension, web applications, to change content dynamically without the need to reload the entire page. In practice, modern implementations commonly utilize JSON instead of XML.

Currently, the primary language supported by Phobos is JavaScript. By leveraging JavaScript on the server, Phobos allows developers to use the same language on the client and server tier of a web application, eliminating the impedance mismatch that characterizes other approaches to Ajax. [2]

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