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Credits
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Rajesh Kumar Bachu Michelle Quadros
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Liang Yuxian Eugene
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About the Authors
Rajesh Kumar Bachu has over six years experience in the design and development
of enterprise applications and mobile games. He is good at programming in Java and
J2EE technologies. He has worked extensively in qooxdoo application development
and has migrated an enterprise application to qooxdoo. You can find more about him
at http://in.linkedin.com/in/rajbachu.
I am pleased to acknowledge my colleagues with whom I worked and
learned qooxdoo, my co-author, Raffi, for bringing me on-board to write
this book and qooxdoo team, who have actually given me the pleasure to
write on qooxdoo.
My special thanks to my parents. I would like to thank all my friends who
directly or indirectly helped me to complete this book.
My thanks to all those who have been involved with this book, especially
to Mary Nadar, Dilip Venkatesh, Michelle Quadros, Meeta Rajani, Ehsun
Behravesh, Liang Yuxian Eugene, Vrinda Amberkar, and Kedar Bhat.
Mohamed Raffi is an Enterprise Application Specialist. His area of work includes
architecture, design, development, training, and mentoring. He has over thirteen years of
product development experience in a variety of Java and JavaScript-based technologies and
frameworks. You can find more about him at http://in.linkedin.com/in/raffimd
and he writes his thoughts at http://thoughtstoblog.blogspot.com.
My sincere thanks to Packt Publishing for this opportunity. I would like to
thank my co-author Rajesh for sharing the effort of writing this book. I am
proud of the qooxdoo team for creating such a wonderful RIA framework.
Also, I would like to thank all my colleagues for all the learning they have
provided me with.
I appreciate all the support provided by my parents and my wife in writing
this book. My grandpa would be so proud (I wish he would have been here
to see this).
My thanks to all who were involved with this book, especially to Mary
Nadar, Dilip Venkatesh, Michelle Quadros, Meeta Rajani, Ehsun Behravesh,
Liang Yuxian Eugene, Vrinda Amberkar, and Kedar Bhat.
About the Reviewers
Ehsun Behravesh is a 28 year old post-graduate student at Universiti Putra,
Malaysia (http://www.upm.edu.my/). He is majoring in Distributed and Parallel
Computing. He is holds a bachelor's degree from the London Metropolitan University
(http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/). He started programming when he was in
high school and he has developed software systems for almost 10 years. He is a fan
of open source software and one of his open source projects, MyPasswords
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/mypasswords7/), won a comparison
competition on LinuxFormat, January 2011 magazine. He loves computer programming,
music, and animals.
I want to thank my wife who has always encouraged me to work and study.
I also want to thank my parents who helped me to study abroad.
Liang Yuxian Eugene most recently completed an internship as a frontend engineer with
Yahoo!, Taiwan after completing a double degree in Business Administration and Computer
Science at National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
He is also the author of JavaScript Testing Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing.
Eugene enjoys solving difficult problems creatively in the form of building web applications
using Python/Django/Tornado Web and JavaScript/jQuery. He is also passionate about social
media, social network analysis, social computing, recommendation algorithms, link analysis,
data visualization, data mining, information retrieval, business intelligence, and intelligent
user interfaces.
Eugene seeks to solve business problems with Computer Science.
He can be reached at http://www.liangeugene.com.
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Publishing for giving me the opportunity to work with such a great team of
people.
Secondly, I want to thank my family and friends for their kind
understanding and putting up with my incredibly busy schedule.
Lastly, I want to thank all the people I have met and have helped me out
here-and-there along the way. It has been a great journey.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: What is qooxdoo? 7
A feel of an RIA developed in qooxdoo 8
Time for action – play with the feed reader application 8
Architecture of qooxdoo SDK 12
Core layer 12
Browser Abstraction layer 12
Low-Level layer 13
GUI Toolkit layer 13
Data Binding 13
Internationalization 13
qooxdoo framework features 14
Language 14
Object-orientation 14
Programming 15
Internationalization 15
API reference 15
Testing 16
Deployment 16
Migration 16
Alternative programming models 17
Event-based rich UI programming 17
GUI widget library 18
Time for action – checking the demo browser and the playground applications 18
