Adobe have recently announced their Spry Framework for programming AJAX. This is their marketing theme:

The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library for web designers that provides functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users. It is designed to bring Ajax to the web design community who can benefit from Ajax, but are not well served by other frameworks.

It’s interesting to see a larger company move into the arena of Javascript frameworks, although it seems that Adobe are following very much in existing footsteps. Spry seems to offer very similar features to existing frameworks such as Prototype, Scriptaculous and Rico. They claim that it will integrate easily with software such as Dreamweaver, which I’d very much like to see in action.

Hopefully this venture from Adobe won’t cause any of the smaller providers to lose faith, and they won’t gain a monopoly in this new and rapidly changing area.