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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, all the major internet or enterprise applications are developed or migrated to Rich Internet Application to support all the features that are provided in the desktop applications. This helps organizations keep the end users happy and also improves application deployment and maintenance. qooxdoo is a stable, open source RIA framework. If you are waiting and watching for the right time to migrate your application to qooxdoo, this is the right time!This book explains in detail about the rich user interface development in qooxdoo. It explains various concepts of qooxdoo framework in an easy to grasp and organized way, making it simple even for a novice in qooxdoo and also increases the competency level of the developer who is already working in qooxdoo.This book helps developers understand the qooxdoo framework, setup the environment, and start the development of RIA using qooxdoo. You will learn the core programming techniques in qooxdoo, user interface development in qooxdoo, testing & debugging qooxdoo applications, internationalization of qooxdoo applications to multiple languages, customizing the look and feel of qooxdoo applications using Themes, Performance management, etc.In the course of the book, we develop a complete application which will help the developer to understand the concepts better and to put things together to see the step-by-step progress to complete an application. By the end, this book will get the developer accustomed to the widgets and API available in the qooxdoo framework, and will enable him to design, develop, debug, and test the RIA in qooxdoo.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
qooxdoo
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References

Chapter 1. What is qooxdoo?

This chapter introduces the qooxdoo framework to you, explains the architecture, explores the framework features, briefs you about the GUI widget library, and provides an overall understanding about the qooxdoo framework. It takes you through an application developed in qooxdoo and also explains the application that we are going to develop throughout this book.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following:

  • A feel of an RIA developed in qooxdoo

  • Architecture of the qooxdoo SDK

  • qooxdoo framework features

  • Event-based Rich UI Programming

  • GUI Library

  • The application to be developed in this book—Team Twitter

  • What you should know and what you don't need to know

By the end of this chapter, you will have an understanding of the qooxdoo RIA framework and the programming languages or technologies required to develop an application in qooxdoo.

Let's begin to understand qooxdoo.

A feel of an RIA developed in qooxdoo

Before anything, let's get a feel for an application developed in qooxdoo. This will give a rough idea about the things that you can develop, depending on the features in that application. You can do more than that with qooxdoo. The following screenshot will give you an overview of the feed reader application: