Enterprise JavaScript

The popularity of Ajax has given us many JavaScript toolkits over the past few years, each of which have their strengths and weaknesses. This talk will include a discussion of some of the more popular of these, such as Dojo, JQuery, Protoype, Spry, Script.aculo.us, and the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library. In addition, the presentation will also discuss what you need to know about JavaScript to develop enterprise-grade applications, including topics such as emulating namespaces in JavaScript, object creation and inheritance using prototypes, associative arrays, closures, internationalization, and Ajax interaction techniques.

This talk will include a discussion of various JavaScript toolkits available today which include Dojo, JQuery, Protoype, Spry, Script.aculo.us, and the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library.

About Greg Murray

Appointed as AJAX Architect for Sun Microsystems, Greg Murray is deeply involved in the Ajax movement through his participation in the OpenAJAX Alliance and promoting of Ajax throughout the world. Within Sun, Greg lead a grass roots effort advancing the integration of client-side scripting with Java technologies and is the creator and principal architect of Project jMaki. jMaki allows developers to create Ajax web applications . Greg recently contributed to the design and development of the Ajax-based Java Pet Store 2.0 Demo and helped create Java BluePrints solutions for using Ajax with Java and PHP technologies.

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