This is good info. In 2005, Ajax all the hype but very new, Prototype just came out. script.aculo.us was the first popular library to add fluid interactivity li

This is good info. In 2005, Ajax all the hype but very new, Prototype just came out. script.aculo.us was the first popular library to add fluid interactivity like drag-and-drop to DOM elements. This is a year before jQuery. On the Java front we had 'Model 2' frameworks like Struts 1. Struts 2 was brand new. Oracle had ADF and pushed it pretty hard. JSF was fairly new and nearly no one used it. ColdFusion offered a complete package and was actually not terrible. MySpace was written in CF. There was always ASP.NET. But if you weren't coding in Java, CF, or ASP, you were using some bespoke not-yet-framework. I'd say 'wild wild west' is an apt description.