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.
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: