Great Lakes Software Symposium - November 16 - 18, 2007 - No Fluff Just Stuff

JavaScript for Java Programmers

Great Lakes Software Symposium

Chicago · November 16 - 18, 2007

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About this Presentation

This presentation covers JavaScript from the perspective of a Java programmer. We assume that you may be using an Ajax toolkit, but still need to be able to read, modify, and test the JavaScript code in your application. You will learn the common idioms of JavaScript by looking at working code from Prototype and Scriptaculous.

All Ajax programmers need to know JavaScript. Toolkits will do some of the work for you, but your own JavaScript will differentiate your applications from others. A reading knowledge of JavaScript is also necessary when selecting an Ajax framework, and for testing and debugging applications.


We'll go straight to the interesting parts of JavaScript programming:

  • Prototype-based inheritance
  • Functional style
  • Dynamic evaluation
  • In-browser testing

We'll demonstrate these concepts using the popular Ajax frameworks Prototype and script.aculo.us.

Stuart Halloway

President of Cognitect

Stuart Halloway is a founder and President of Cognitect, Inc. (www.cognitect.com). He is a Clojure committer, and a developer of the Datomic database.

Stuart has spoken at a variety of industry events, including StrangeLoop, Clojure/conj, EuroClojure, ClojureWest, SpeakerConf, QCon, GOTO, OSCON, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, and NFJS.

Stuart has written a number of books and technical articles. Of these, he is most proud of Programming Clojure.

Learn more about Stu's presentations on his wiki.