Dojo Training: Introduction to the Dojo Framework for Ajax

Course Number: AJX-120
GSA/Previous Course Number: 835
Duration: 3 days
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Dojo Training Overview

Accelebrate's Dojo Training teaches attendees how to build powerful JavaScript Ajax applications using the Dojo Toolkit.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/java.htm.

Dojo Training Prerequisites

All attendees should be experienced HTML and JavaScript developers. Prior knowledge of CSS is helpful but not required.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This class is 50% hands-on, 50% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

Dojo Training Materials

All Dojo training students receive a copy of Prentice-Hall's Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library to Build Ajax Applications, related courseware, and copies of all files developed during the class.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Firefox 2 or later and/or Internet Explorer 6 or later with the Firebug plug-in installed
Web development environment of your choice. The environment should support HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development.
Some data-driven examples require a web server. Our default is to have attendees install JDK 1.5 or later with Apache Tomcat 5.5 or later.
If you have purchased this course, please contact us for a detailed setup sheet.

Dojo Training Objectives

As a result of this training, attendees will:

Understand Dojo’s feature set and API design
Master use of Dojo Core
Learn how to manage events in the Dojo framework
Use the Dijit module, including built-in widgets and custom widgets
Discover how Dojo can make remote calls to server-side applications
Learn how to debug Dojo applications
Master advanced features of the Dojo framework

Dojo Training Outline

Browser Programming Model

JavaScript Programming
Document Object Model, DOM
Cascading Style Sheets, CSS
XMLHttpRequest Object, XHR
JavaScript Object Notation, JSON

Overview of Dojo Base

Namespace and Packaging
Object Oriented Programming
Events and Event Handling
Working with the DOM

Elements and NodeList
CSS selectors with dojo.query

Overview of Dojo Core

Importing with dojo.require
Strings, JSON and RegExp
Backbutton and dojo.back
Drag and Drop
Visual Effects
iFrames and dojo.i

Advanced Events in Dojo

AOP
Using publish / subscribe
Threads and dojo.deferred

Dijit – Dojo Widget Module

Declarative Programming and the Dojo Parser
Form and Data Validation
Layout Widgets
Specialized Widget

Dijit – Customizing Widgets

Styling Widgets
Extending Widgets
Building Your Own Widgets

Remoting in Dojo

xhrGet and xhrPost
Direct Web Remoting (DWR)
Server Architecture Issues

Dojo on the server side

Datastores
Writing Data Stores
DWR Data Stores

Debugging Dojo Apps

Inspecting the DOM
JavaScript Debugging
JavaScript IDEs
Dojo Logging
Dojo Unit Testing with DOH

Additional Topics

Dojo Data Grid and client side Caching
Migrating from 3. and .4
Security
Comparison with YUI
Comparison with GWT
Projects Using Dojo
Dojo Offline Storage

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