We are pleased to announce that Greg Murray (creator of the jMaki Ajax framework, former Ajax architect for Sun Microsystems, Sun NetBeans IDE team member and lead on the Java Servlet 2.5 specification) and Ryan Johnson (creator of the livepipe and object.event Ajax libraries) have joined the Aptana Jaxer team!

Greg's primary role will be creating increasingly robust application frameworks for Jaxer, Aptana's open source Ajax server product. Ryan has already been working on MVC concepts for Jaxer and will be collaborating with Greg and the rest of the Jaxer team to drive that and other great concepts for Jaxer forward.

The timing could not be better. Greg and Ryan have joined up just before we get the Jaxer 1.0 release candidate out the door to the whole community (it's just a matter of days now). This puts us in a great position to start working on some of the next things that'll be in store for Jaxer in the coming months -- and there are some great ideas brewing. For example, Greg and Ryan have already been collaborating with the Jaxer team to create an ActiveRecord-like JavaScript ORM for Jaxer that promises to make working with JavaScript data a pleasure -- since it'll all be native JavaScript! Dion Almaer and others in the community have been championing this idea as well. Now we're doing it! Of course Greg and Ryan are both deeply involved in the Ajax community in their own ways as well: Greg with the jMaki project and Ryan with Dynamic Reach and his active role in the Prototype community. So be on the lookout for blog posts from Greg and Ryan to keep abreast of all the stuff they'll be up to here at Aptana.