ajax toolkit-framework
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Ajax Toolkit FrameworkTRANSCRIPT
AJAX Toolkit Framework
Agenda
Overview AJAX Toolkit Framework Components Component Details Where to get AJAX Toolkit Framework Demonstrations through-out ATF Based Products
Overview
The AJAX Toolkit Framework (ATF) is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for AJAX developers and an extensible framework for adding AJAX runtimes in to the IDE.
ATF is an open-source project in incubation phase on Eclipse.
Provides Tools to develop any DHTML/AJAX application Tooling to facilitate use of various AJAX toolkits Tight integration with the existing Eclipse user interface and development paradigm
Targets AJAX Application Developers and Toolkit Developers
Aims to provide an ever-expanding set of high-function tools for AJAX developers
AJAX Toolkit Framework are Eclipse Plug-ins
MozillaXULRunner & JavaXPCOM
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Eclipse WebTools
AJAX Toolkit Framework
AJAX Toolkit Framework Components
Creating AJAX applications Drag and Drop Application Snippets
Browser Tooling DOM Source view, DOM Inspector, Browser Console, XHRequest Monitor, and
CSS Tools
JavaScriptTM Editor Integrated JavaScript editor with batch and as-you-type syntax validation
JavaScript Debugger Stack Frame, Variables and Script view
Embedded Mozilla Browser Run/Debug an Ajax application in the Embedded Mozilla Browser
Application Deployment Deployment of an AJAX Application to a server.
Personality Builder Ability to create tooling for AJAX toolkits
AJAX Toolkit Framework Components
MozillaXULRunner & JavaXPCOM
Eclipse WebTools
Eclipse Plugins
JavaScript Syntax Validator
PersonalitiesDOM Inspector And JavaScript
Console
Java Script Debugger
Embedded Mozilla Browser
Personality Builder
Rico Personality
Zimbra Personality
Dojo Personality
Rico Zimbra Dojo
Personality Common Libraries
AJAX “X” Personality
Ajax-x
Ajax Application Creation
Support for three AJAX runtimes today Dojo, Rico, and Zimbra
Personality Builder supports adding other AJAX runtimes.
Application Creation Wizard Template to create initial Ajax Application
Drag and Drop snippets to Application Source File
Eclipse Projects Static Web Project, Dynamic Web Project, and PHP Projects
Able to add in AJAX to existing project.
JavaScript Editor
Enhanced Editor with Validation Integrated JavaScript editor
Batch and as-you-type syntax validation
• Syntax checker based on the Mozilla Rhino engine• Validator based on JSLint
Detects undesirable or ambiguous constructs considered to be bad practice
JSLint errors are consider warnings.
Drag and Drop snippets to Application Source File
Application Deployment
Multiple Server Types HTTP Web Server J2EE Servers
HTTP Web Server Support defining a HTTP Web Server in Eclipse
• Ability to specify publish directory• Defining the HTTP server port• Support for Home Page URLs (~username)
J2EE Servers Multiple J2EE Servers (Tomcat, JBOSS. etc.) Testing done using Tomcat
Publishing Options Automatically publish to server Never publish to server
Embedded Mozilla Browser
Integrated the Mozilla Browser
Using XULRunner
Provides the engine for AJAX Tooling Debugger
JavaScript Engine
Browser Views
Mozilla perspective
JavaScript Debugger
Breakpoints Ability to set breakpoints in JavaScript
Any file type with JavaScript content (html, js, php).
Breakpoints can be enable/disabled
Debug Views for JavaScript Call Stack
Variables
Breakpoints
Scripts View
Expression Support
Debug Preference options
URL Debugging/Running
Able to launch and debug an AJAX application using a URL.
Application doesn’t have to reside in Eclipse.
All tooling supports handling files by URL. Editor
Debugger
Browser tooling
Breakpoint Management User has to manually delete breakpoints
Browser Tooling
DOM Inspector Shows the DOM tree rendered by the Browser
Dynamically updated to reflect changes within the browser
Attributes of a node can be edited, added to, and removed
A breadcrumb trail of hyperlinks is created for the node's path
DOM Source view Displays the HTML source of the selected DOM node
Source can edited, validated, and updated back to the browser
Notification of a DOM element's source being out of sync with the browser
Browser Tooling
Browser Console Shows all browser (i.e JavaScript, CSS) errors, warnings,
and logging messages
Double clicking on an error opens to the relevant line of code
XMLHTTPRequest Monitor Observe XMLHTTPRequest request/response
information
Formatting of the response body based on content-types
Browser Tooling
CSS View Style Rules
• Shows the rules and their defined properties • Able to edit and add a property• Open CSS file for the rule and property • Highlights the DOM elements using a selected style rule or
property Computed Styles
• Shows every style rule computed by the browser Box Model
• Shows the dimensions, x-y coordinates, padding, border, and margin information
Diffs
• Shows the changes made to CSS rules and properties
Personality Builder
A set of Wizards which accept: Artifact data (AJAX toolkit libraries)
Build requirements data
New application templates
Code patterns
Deployment data
Wizards output a ‘basic’ Personality Plugin The builder will provide necessary basic development
features targeted for AJAX toolkits
Enables customization and addition of functionality
Future Enhancements
Robust JavaScript Tooling Real JavaScript Model, Enhanced code
completion, Enhanced Outline view , Code formatting, etc
Debugger enhancements
Improve Install better support for run time dependencies
Personality Builder improvements
Multiple Browser Support (IE, Opera, etc)
Where to get AJAX Toolkit Framework
Open Source Project on Eclipse www.eclipse.org/atf
Listserv and Newsgroup [email protected]
news://eclipse.webtools.atf/
Source Code in Eclipse CVS
Milestones and Weekly builds www.eclipse.org/atf/downloads/index.php
Flash Demo Movies www.eclipse.org/atf/flash/index.php
Legal Notices
Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both.
Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.
Screen Shots of products using ATF provided by different vendors.
Helmi Technologies RIA IDE
Genuitec MyEclipse 2.0
Visual Drag Drop Editing
DOM Inspection
Event Wizard