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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

Summary


We learned a lot in this chapter about the qooxdoo framework. Specifically, we:

  • Had a feel of RIA, developed in qooxdoo

  • Got to know the layers in the qooxdoo architecture and the layers or modules that we need to learn for GUI development

  • Got an idea about the various features provided by the qooxdoo framework. This broadens the understanding of the qooxdoo framework

  • Went through the widgets (if not all, as many as we could), with the help of the demo browser and the playground utilities provided by the qooxdoo framework

  • Defined the functional requirements for the application that we are going to develop in this book

We also discussed the things we should know and the things we don't need to know. Now that we've got an overview of qooxdoo, we're ready to say "hello" to the qooxdoo world.