Killer JavaScript Frameworks: Prototype, Scriptaculous, and Rico
Salt Lake Software Symposium
Salt Lake City · June 22 - 23, 2007
About this Presentation
An introduction to the popular Prototype JavaScript framework, and two frameworks built on top of Prototype: Scriptaculous and Rico.
Web2.0 is all about rich, interactive user interfaces (UIs), and these three frameworks provide the capabilities that you need to develop those UIs.
Prototype (prototype.conio.net) is a low-level JavaScript framework that adds significant features to JavaScript that make it easier for you to use the language and to incorporate Ajax calls in your applications.
Scriptaculous is a framework (script.aculo.us) built on top of Prototype that adds some pizazz to Prototype with features such as a wide array of special effects, animation, and drag and drop.
Rico is another framework (openrico.org) built on top of Prototype that, among other things, provides something known as behaviours, where you adorn plain-vanilla HTML with seemingly magical behaviours.
Come to this session and learn how to harness the power of these three frameworks.
Author of Graphic Java, co-author of Core JSF, member of the JSF Expert Group
David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. (corewebdevelopment.com), where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF) and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces. David's Graphic Java Swing was the best-selling Swing book, and is one of the best-selling Java books of all-time, and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.
David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF 1.0 Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework, and David is currently on the JSF 2 Expert Group, helping to vastly improve JSF in version 2.
Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and he has written questions for two of Sun's Certification Exams: Web Developer Certification and JavaServer Faces Certification. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and contributed to the Apache Shale project.
David has spoken at more than 100 NFJS symposiums since 2003, and he also speaks at other conferences such as TheServerSide Java Symposium, JavaOne, JavaPolis, and JAOO. David has taught at Java University for the past three years, and is a three-time JavaOne rock star.