Roland Tritsch discusses using AJAX and Apache projects to build mobile applications. He notes the rise of mobile devices and importance of developing for mobile. While native apps have high costs, AJAX has low costs but may provide good enough results. Apache ServiceMix, ActiveMQ and CXF can form a server-side SOA platform, while CXF's code generation capabilities simply client development. With the right requirements, AJAX is viable for mobile if services are properly wrapped.