This IBM Redbooks publication demonstrates techniques and technologies available through the WAS Feature Pack for Web 2.0 for building dynamic, next-generation Web applications. It covers the three main sub-components including:

* Connecting to SOA services from a Ajax using lightweight protocols REST and JSON

* Extending Enterprise Messaging to the Web using Ajax Messaging

* Speeding up Ajax application time to market using the Ajax Development Toolkit featuring Dojo

Web 2.0 FEP on WAS CE 2.0, WAS 6.1, and WAS 6.0.2 are supported.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Web 2.0

Chapter 2. Feature pack overview

Chapter 3. Core concepts

Chapter 4. Installation

Chapter 5. Application development tools

Chapter 6. Ajax connectivity

Chapter 7. Java libraries

Chapter 8. REST

Chapter 9. Ajax client runtime

Chapter 10. Web messaging service

Chapter 11. Security

Chapter 12. Best practices

Chapter 13. Rich Internet applications

Appendix A. XML schema definitions

Appendix B. Additional material