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GMaps4JSF, a JavaServer Faces (JSF) mashup library, integrates Google Maps with JSF. Using GMaps4JSF, you can construct complex street view panoramas and maps with just a few JSF tags. This article explains how to configure GMaps4JSF inside JSF 2.0 applications, and includes a brief introduction to JSF 2.0 Ajax.

In this article, learn how to build a social network with Google Maps, Twitter, Groovy, and Ajax. By combining a Google Map with location information that Twitter exposes, you can create a mashup that allows people to view Twitter in light of a particular location. The simple application this article builds with open APIs, and a bit of imagination, will open yourself up to a whole new world of social applications development. The possibilities are endless. The rest is up to you.

Learn how to build a cascading Ajax drop-down control that dynamically populates values in an HTML SELECT control based on other form field values. This article describes how to build an auto-complete control, similar to Google Suggest, that displays a suggestion list that is updated in real time as a user types.

The big differences between the Google Web Toolkit and the Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) are that GWT is running on the client vs. RAP, which is mainly running on the server. RAP allows developers to build browser-based Ajax applications using full Java libraries and Eclipse APIs. It does so by providing a Web-enabled implementation of SWT, JFace, and the Eclipse Workbench. Does this make it better than the GWT? look at this article, which shows you some demos, and concludes with some simple-to-understand RAP examples, then decide for yourself.

Add more functionality to your Web applications than just what your own Ajax scripts and server-side programs provide. It shouldn't be hard to build on what you learn here and start utilizing the Google API with your Ajax apps. More importantly, though, you will have a pretty good idea of how to use public APIs in general including the one from Amazon, del.icio.us, or anywhere else.