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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

Compile-time tuning


qooxdoo provides certain jobs to tune the application for best performance while compiling the application itself. The jobs such as lint, which validates the JavaScript source code, and log with classes-unused set to the root package and identifies the unused classes in the package optimizing the classes, and so on.

Let us see the optimization that we can carry out at the qooxdoo application's compilation time.

Class optimizations

Currently, qooxdoo performs and allows optimization in four categories in the JavaScript classes while creating the build version.

The four categories are as follows:

Strings

String optimization reduces the repetitive references to the same string literal. qooxdoo framework extracts all the string literals inside the class definition, creates lexical variables, and replaces the strings with lexical variables.

Variables

Variable optimization mainly concentrates on the JavaScript's physical size, where all the long variable names are replaced with...