In this podcast, you'll hear about the benefits of Ajax on a sluggish Internet; an update on the Java EE 5/Glassfish spec; the string, glue, and voodoo around mashups; and the hype and reality of Web 2.0. Listen to my discussion with Tim Bray, director of Web technologies, and Dan Roberts, director of developer tools marketing, at Sun Microsystems.

And speaking of Web 2.0 hype, you might find this blog-to-blog debate between Tim Bray and Tim O'Reilly, who recently hosted the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, interesting.

Background music: "Away In The Woods," courtesy Digital Riffs Music under Creative Commons License