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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


In this chapter, we have learnt various ways to improve the performance of the qooxdoo application and the various tools provided with the qooxdoo framework that help to identify the performance hurdles in the application.

In particular, we have covered:

  • The object life cycle and the efficient way of managing the browser memory. Disposing of the objects without failure.

  • Object pooling is a very good concept where the user has a pool of objects, where object-creation time can be avoided by reusing a pooled object.

  • Various ways to have statistical profile information.

  • Compile-time settings to optimize the application and find the unused classes during the compilation process itself.

  • Partitioning the application, where each chunk can be loaded lazily.

  • Some best practices to implement in the application for best performance.

We have learnt and implemented most of the techniques on our Team Twitter application and have improved the initial loading time as well as the application's