Topic: qooxdoo

Released: QxWT-0.8.2-RC1 – GWT Wrapper for qooxdoo

Dietrich Kappe, Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 5:00 am

I used to scratch my head at the name for the JavaScript library qooxdoo. That's until I ran into the developers of the library at an Ajax Experience event in Boston a few years ago and they pronounced it "Kucks Du" as in "Was kucks du" or German for "what are you looking at?" Beyond the basics, qooxdoo is a mature collection of JavaScript widgets, despite the authors' conservative versioning policy (they're still only at 0.8.3).

It's taken them long enough, but they've finally released a wrapper for GWT, named QxWT. Best of all, they have a commercial-friendly open source license. If you're put off by GXT and it's license, you owe yourself a look.

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QWT: Qooxdoo Web Toolkit

Dietrich Kappe, Friday, March 28, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

Qooxdoo is an Ajax framework that I haven't spent much time with, but after meeting the guys of Qooxdoo at AjaxWorld East and finding out that it's pronounced "guckst du," as in the German slang "Was guckst du?" (Rough translation: "What are you looking at?"), my interest has been piqued.

One interesting recent addition to qooxdoo is QWT, the Qooxdoo Web Toolkit, a Java to JavaScript "compiler" that works with the qooxdoo framework. I put "compiler" in quotations because, after looking at the code, it looks more like a Java to JavaScript translator. Also, where GWT has a hosted mode where you can debug in Java, QWT doesn't appear to have that feature, so debugging wonky QWT code promises to be a bit of an adventure.

Still, an community effort of this kind indicates that qooxdoo is a vibrant framework. I intend to give qooxdoo a closer look over the next few months.

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