qooxdoo: Beginner's Guide
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.
What you will learn from this book:
- Gain knowledge on core object oriented programming concepts in qooxdoo
- Communicate through RPC-based AJAX calls
- Use light weight JSON to pass the data between client and server
- Get well versed with Containers and Layout Managers
- Learn most of the off the shelf widgets provided by qooxdoo in an organized way
- Design and implement Rich Internet Applications in qooxdoo
- Learn to do unit testing and automated testing of your qooxdoo application
- Easily internationalize your qooxdoo application to multiple languages
- Customize your qooxdoo application’s look and feel using Themes
- Profile and improve performance of the qooxdoo applications
- Create reusable custom widgets for your qooxdoo applications
- Develop enterprise applications in qooxdoo
Approach
This is a Packt beginner’s guide. The unique style of the book is to set the requirements for an application, Team Twitter, in the first chapter and apply the concepts in the application as you learn in the following chapters. When you complete this book, you would have developed a complete application.
Although the scope of this book is only on the qooxdoo framework, which is a client side framework, we have explained how to set up one of the RPC servers and demonstrated the end to end application in the Team Twitter.
