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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

Partitioning and lazy loading


Package is the concept of grouping related information or classes. Simply, packages allow you to partition your application physically. It is a good idea to load the required information as needed, instead of loading everything in the beginning. The major advantage of loading each partition on demand is reduction in the initial application's startup time.

Note that this feature is not completely implemented in older releases of qooxdoo and it is fully implemented in qooxdoo 1.4+ versions. We will see what are the major issues that have been fixed and improvements in this feature.

A developer can partition the application into any number of partitions and the developer can load each partition as and when it is required in the application. In our Team Twitter application, we have the teamtwitter functionalities and we have also included the samples that contain all the experimental samples that we have featured in this book to explain various concepts. Here, the...