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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

Chapter 3. Core Programming Concepts

This chapter explains basic object-oriented features (class, object, interface, inheritance, and so on) and how these features are achieved with JavaScript in the qooxdoo framework. This chapter also explains the basic syntax of the qooxdoo programming.

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamically typed and that supports object-oriented language. qooxdoo allows you to write the code in object-oriented fashion, by providing the basic syntax for each object-oriented concept. In addition to the object-oriented support, qooxdoo gives more flexibility to ease coding in JavaScript. qooxdoo framework provides many reusable components too. Let's learn the core programming concepts of qooxdoo framework, in this chapter.

In this chapter, we shall cover the following topics:

  • Code comments and API documentation

  • Object-oriented programming

  • Interface, class, and mixin

  • qooxdoo properties

  • Events

  • Team Twitter classes

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