On 12/14/06, A. Zeneski <
>
> I used prototype for my initial test and found it very easy to work
> with. Dojo on the other hand seemed to have a much broader learning
> curve. It too me a while to get everything working, but I think it is
> due to the ajax part being more verbose.
>
> The extra features such as DND and other widgets is very nice as well.
>
> The fact that DOJO is available under the BSD license is a plus as well.
> I think there should be no license issues with this library.
>
> Should we just say DOJO is the way to go for future Ajax based tools in
> OFBiz or do we need a formal vote?
>
> Andrew
>
> Alex D. Fleming wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ooops Dojo is supported by IBM & AOL ....so I will prefer Dojo.
> >
> >
http://dojotoolkit.org/foundation/> >
> >
> > On 12/14/06, A. Zeneski <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Si (& all),
> >>
> >> I am in process of doing a lot of custom AJAX stuff for a new client. I
> >> intended on using prototype.js but based on conversations with other
> >> people decided to go with dojo instead.
> >>
> >> The main part of what I did was a JSON wrapper around the service event
> >> handler. What this does is allows you to define (controller) requests
> >> for ajax calls and have the results return in a lightweight (JSON)
> >> format.
> >>
> >> This will work with any front end toolkit (Yahoo, Prototype, Dojo,
> etc).
> >> The main point is to define a standard pattern for AJAX requests in
> >> OFBiz.
> >>
> >> Deciding on a toolkit for the javascript is very important and based on
> >> what I have researched and discussed with other people, Dojo seems to
> be
> >> the way to go.
> >>
> >> Of course, I am open for discussion with this, but we really should
> >> decide on a standard for contributions back to OFBiz. The last thing I
> >> want to see is several different ways of communication and different
> >> toolkits being used.
> >>
> >> Prototype.js has been removed from SVN for the time being. As soon as
> >> there is code which uses one of the toolkits it can be added back in.
> >>
> >> Let's start a community vote for the default AJAX toolkit to use in
> >> OFBiz. Based on the work I did, I have already setup the back end
> >> pattern, services using JSON for the return. Now let's decide on a
> front
> >> end toolkit.
> >>
> >> First lets, define the candidates:
> >>
> >> 1) Dojo
> >> 2) Prototype
> >>
> >> Andy
> >>
>
>
>
Alex D. Fleming