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Today I am read a magazine about web technologies and found an interesting article about Qooxdoo. Qooxdoo is an open source project, launched by 1&1. It is an Ajax Framework. This framework provides, in contrast to Prototype not only the JavaScript methods, but also a GUI toolkit. This means that you can build a complex web application with a graphical interface, without to have HTML, CSS and DOM knowledge. It is not important what for server technology are you using for developing. You could take PHP as well as Java, Python, Perl or Ruby programming language. Qooxdoo use the principle of object orientation. Of course, the scripts generated by Qooxdoo will be supported by all popular browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari version 3. This means that the developer have not to worry about the low level issues of different browser. Another advantage of Qooxdoo is the fact that no additional plug-ins, such as Java, Flash or Silverlight are needed.
You can find interesting examples on the website of the project, which make it clear what you can do within the framework and they are really fascinating. You get the feeling that you use an application written in C + + or Java. Thanks to the internal optimizer, all applications bekame really quickly. Those who wish to create commercial projects will be certainly comfortable with built on the opfuscation tool. This feature is very important because it can protect a source code. This brings additional security, which plays today a major role.
One prominent example of the project, powered by Qooxdoo Framework is the Webmailer of GMX. Here are the advantages of this technology particularly clear. The Webmailer application of GMX looks like a normal program such as Outlook and is very pleasant to use.
I think that it was a very clever idea of 1&1, to release this framework as an open source project. Not only 1&1 will benefit by the development of their own web applications, because they can save a lot of money but also the foreign developers who receives a powerful tool for creating Web-based applications for free. The example of Eclipse project can show how good this strategy could work.