Thanks goes out to all that were able to attend last night's JavaOne BOF, "Dynamic Portals and Ajax in Portlets".  There was lots of good open discussion about the challenges and successes of implementing new dynamic portals with AJAX.  The slides are available here.  Below is a list of resources URLs for some of the topics we discussed.  Check back here for new developments regarding AJAX in portals and portlets.

• Portals/Portlets
• http://developers.sun.com/portalserver/
• JSR 168
• JSR 286
• "Best Practices for AJAX and JSR 168 Portlets"
• AJAX
• http://developers.sun.com/ajax
• jMaki
  
• http://dojotoolkit.org
• http://json.org
  
• Widget Standards
  
• http://dev.netvibes.com/
• http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/
• Microformats
  
• http://microformats.org/wiki/widget-brainstorming
• http://developer.iamalpha.com/profile/
  
• COMET
  
• http://blogs.pathf.com/agileajax/2007/04/roundup_comet_t.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2006/10/writting_a_come.html
• http://satoshi.blogs.com/uie/2006/10/live_pageview_c.html
• http://www.pushlets.com/
• http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=545
• http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=567
  
• Mashups
  
• http://www.programmableweb.com/