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Dojo from the ground up, Part 1
My latest developerWorks was published earlier this week. This is the first of a 3 part series on the Dojo JavaScript framework. Part 1 of the series is titled “Dojo from the ground up, Part 1: Getting started with Dojo development” and covers the basics of working with the Dojo toolkit. Part 2 covers Dojo’s excellent object-orientation features, and Part 3 covers the Dijit user interface component library. Parts 2 and 3 will be available in the coming weeks.
The Dojo toolkit enables web application developers to create Rich Internet Applications by offering a wide variety of features that save development time and effort. From DOM helpers and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) to a full-blown widget library and object-orientation features, Dojo includes virtually everything you need to build large-scale Ajax-powered web applications. If the functions you are looking for are not included in Dojo itself, it’s highly likely that you can find them in DojoX, a repository of extensions and experimental features that are not included in the Base or Core modules of the toolkit. In this article series, learn how to develop Dojo-powered applications from the ground up, covering the basics, Dojo’s great object-orientation features, and the Dijit user interface library. By the end of this series, you will be well prepared to develop Dojo applications of your own.
Dojo was created in 2004 to make the process of developing DHTML and JavaScript web applications easier, hiding much of the cross-browser inconsistencies that are prevalent in modern web browsers. This enabled the focus to be placed on implementing functions rather than tweaking code to make it work on every browser. Dojo is owned by the Dojo foundation, which was founded in 2005 by Alex Russell and Dylan Schiemann. Dojo is open source software (OSS) and is available under a dual-license (you can pick which one you want to adhere to) with both the Academic Free License (AFL) and a modified BSD license available.
Read the full article at IBM developerWorks: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ground/index.html
