America Online will back the growing adoption of open source solutions, the company revealed via a press release in which it reinstated its support for the Dojo Foundation. In this regard, AOL confirmed that it will offer hosting for the Dojo version 0.3.1.

"We are pleased to be furthering AOL's support of open source initiatives through our contributions to the Dojo JavaScript toolkit, especially as we've benefited so much from our own increasing adoption of key open source platforms and standards," said Sree Kotay, senior vice president, AOL Technology. "The Dojo Foundation is deservedly recognized throughout the industry for making web development projects not only faster to develop, easier to understand, and richer, but at commercial and professional quality grades, and we are proud to be one of their key sponsors."

"AOL's contributions to the Dojo toolkit have made a significant impact on our ability to develop new and interesting features, helping us connect with a broader user base," said Alex Russell, project lead for the Dojo Toolkit and president of the Dojo Foundation. "We're tremendously excited about AOL's involvement in the project and look forwarding to continuing work with them to deliver better UIs and tools."

AOL involvement with the Dojo open source JavaScript toolkit resulted in the product's integration in America Online's AIM Pages and on the I AM Alpha Website. AOL also contributed to the Ajax and JavaScript adoption by working closely with the Dojo Accessibility Working Group, providing JavaScript Compiler utility to help with the development stage and even hosting the Dojo versions released.