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Wednesday February 01, 2006

Script.aculo.us vs. Dojo

For the last week or so, I've been hearing more and more about Dojo. It's mostly because I've been listening to podcasts, but also because it's integrated into both WebWork 2.2 and Tapestry 4.0 (via Tacos). In AppFuse 1.9, we added Script.aculo.us as one of our Ajax-enabling libraries.

I chose Script.aculo.us because I've used it in the past and it's worked very well (along with its underlying engine, Prototype). Because it's development seems to be largely driven by Ruby on Rails - I figured it was a good library to include. However, since AppFuse includes both Tapestry and WebWork - it seems like including Dojo might be a good idea too.

So my question is - do Script.aculo.us and Dojo do the same thing? Has anyone done a detailed comparison of these two Ajax frameworks?

I realize that Dojo is more of a "toolkit" that's been developed from a bunch of existing DHTML libraries - but can it do the drag-n-drop and cool effects like script.aculo.us can? Can Dojo do things that DWR + Script.aculo.us can't? I haven't used Dojo (yet), that's why I'm asking.

I really like the idea behind both projects, but I can't help but think Script.aculo.us is a little better. Why? Because its creator is a designer (vs. a developer) and its development is driven by one of the most popular web frameworks and it was built from a real-world application rather than a consolidation of libraries.

Dojo, on the other hand, has much better documentation. However, the project lead works for JotSpot. Apparently, the JotSpot Wiki is supposed to be a showcase of what Dojo can do. While the jot.com site looks OK - the Dojo Wiki (based on Jot) is horrific. Things don't line up and it looks awful (in both IE and Firefox on Windows + Firefox on the Mac). On my last project we used Jot and it left a lot to be desired.

I hate to judge a library by the applications it creates - but comparing fluxiom to Jot makes me think Script.aculo.us is the better library. Then again, fluxiom hasn't been released yet.

On a related note, it's possible the Open Ajax project will consolidate the Ajax frameworks - but who knows when that will be released.

Posted in The Web at Feb 01 2006, 03:15:02 PM MST 17 Comments

Want to be more productive with IDEA?

If you want to be more productive with IDEA, Patrick Lightbody has a good suggestion in IDEA Live Templates: more powerful than you think. Now where's the list of the built-in live templates? Does Eclipse have a similar feature?

Posted in Java at Feb 01 2006, 02:45:15 PM MST 4 Comments