Dojo: The Definitive Guide

Summary

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

• Use Dojo's XHR machinery to perform RESTful operations with a web server

• Understand how Deferred s provide the illusion of threads, even though JavaScript does not support threads

• Be aware that the toolkit's entire IO subsystem uses and generally returns Deferred s from function calls

• Be able to use Base's functions for converting forms to and from Objects and JSON

• Be able to use Core's IFRAME transport layer for common operations such as uploading and downloading files

• Understand how the RPC machinery can streamline application logic and produce a more maintainable design

• Be aware of the infrastructure Core provides for implementing the OpenAjax Hub

We'll move on to node manipulation in the next chapter.