Building Rich Web Applications Using jMaki
LAB-4530

Building rich web applications has never been easier. jMaki is a lightweight client-server framework for creating rich Ajax and Web 2.0 applications. It provides a universal interface with the widgets from the various popular toolkits (Dojo, Yahoo, Google, Scriptaculous, and the like), a common data model, and a publish/subscribe mechanism for easily connecting widgets together regardless of the underlying JavaScript technology-based toolkit. jMaki can also work with multiple technologies such as JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology, JRuby, JavaServer Faces technology, and PHP. jMaki is growing into one of the most popular rich web application development toolkits.

In this Hands-on Lab, you will use the NetBeans IDE to rapidly develop a rich web application and then you will use the GlassFish project Sun Java Application Suite server to deploy the application. You will learn many tactics and best practices for using jMaki to build the Ajax mashup applications, how to enable communication between widgets with the jMaki event mechanism, how to work with multiple technologies and multiple toolkits (Dojo, Yahoo, Google, and others), how to access external RESTful web services, and how to work with database persistence data by using the Java Persistence API. At the end of the lab, you will be able to accomplish a real-life rich web application.

Prerequisites: Exposure to Ajax and JavaScript technology is preferred.

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