In the past, OpenLaszlo been regarded as a Flash-only tool. OpenLaszlo is a powerful language for rich, custom declarative UI programming that’s been under development for over 5 years. It’s a powerful framework, and it has an exciting future as a single language that can target both the Flash and Ajax/DHTML runtimes.

This paper discusses the upcoming plans for OpenLaszlo and how they relate to the Ajax community at large. It gives an overview of the OpenLaszlo code base and discusses how to use and extend it. It also includes an overview of the language, a demo of the current Ajax support, and talks about the future of OpenLaszlo as a platform.