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DOJO

Dojo Toolkit is an open source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross platform for JavaScript/Ajax based applications and web sites.
Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript, it will support Cross-platforms present stable Dojo release is 1.3.2.
Dojo Base includes Ajax, events, packaging, CSS-based querying, animations, JSON, language utilities and that's just the beginning. Dojo aims to solve some long-standing historical problems with DHTML which prevented mass adoption of dynamic web application development.

Dojo allows you to easily build dynamic capabilities into web pages and any other environment that supports JavaScript sanely. You can use the components that Dojo provides to make your web sites more usable, responsive, and functional. With Dojo you can build degradable user interfaces more easily, prototype interactive widgets quickly, and animate transitions. You can use the lower-level APIs and compatibility layers from Dojo to write portable JavaScript and simplify complex scripts. Dojo's event system, I/O APIs, and generic language enhancement form the basis of a powerful programming environment. You can use the Dojo build tools to write command-line unit-tests for your JavaScript code. The Dojo build process helps you optimize your JavaScript for deployment by grouping sets of files together and reuse those groups through "profiles".

Dojo does all of these things by layering capabilities onto a very small core which provides the package system and little else. When you write scripts with Dojo, you can include as little or as much of the available APIs as you need to suit your needs. Dojo provides multiple points of entry, interpreter independence, forward looking APIs, and focuses on reducing barriers to adoption.

Dojo Features

Asynchronous communication,
Packaging system,
Client-side data storage,
Server-side data storage,
Support for Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
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Announcements

James Gosling: on the Java Road

This is update regarding on 2009 JVM Language Summit to be held at Sun's Santa Clara campus on September 16-18, 2009. More information is available at http://jvmlangsummit.com.

The JVM Language Summit is an open technical collaboration among language designers, compiler writers, tool builders, runtime engineers, and VM architects. We will share our experiences as creators of programming languages for the JVM and of the JVM itself.

By - Ramesh