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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

Time for action - enhancing the server application


It's time to enhance the server application, so that it supports the functionalities of the Team Twitter application. As the server application goes beyond this book's scope, we won't explain the server application at code level. But, we will explain how to set up the necessary libraries, provide the server code archive for the Team Twitter application, explain where to extract the server code archive, how to compile the server application, how to install the MySQL server, and how to create the database schema for the Team Twitter application. After this section, the server application provides all the necessary support for the Team Twitter client application. You can start making the RPC calls from the client to the server.

  1. 1. Let's download the required frameworks, database server, and libraries. We used Hibernate framework and Spring framework to develop the server application.

    Download Spring framework (spring-framework-2.5.6-with-dependencies...