I had the opportunity to sit down with three fine gents from Aptana to discuss their recent launch of Jaxer, the "server side Ajax framework".

Paul Colton, Uri Sarid, and Kevin Hakman all sat with me to chat about things. I have already played with Jaxer, and created the Google Gears wrapper which can be used seemlessly for use cases such as "If the user doesn't have Gears installed, just do it on the server".