Open Laszlo A rich web development environmeng KW Linux user's group Raul Suarez Dec 2008

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What is Openlaszlo  Language, libraries and development environment to create dynamic web aplications (RIA)  Deploy to either Flash or dhtml  Server based or “solo” deployment  Data driven  Multi platform deployment

Show case  Component sampler Component sampler  Real world applications Real world applications  Demo project Demo project

Language overview  Object oriented  Event based  XML with embeded Javascript XML markup for declarative features Javascript code for procedural  Time based animation (not frame based)  Does not use flash libraries or the flash object model

Architecture overview

Installing it 1.Download the Java SDK from the java site (Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 6 Update 10)  Download the OpenLaszlo (Linux or Dev kit)  chmod +x jdk-6u10-linux-i586.bin./jdk-6u10-linux-i586.bin  tar -xvzf openlaszlo unix.tar.gz 5.Start tomcat export JAVA_HOME="$(pwd)/jdk1.6.0_10"./lps-4.1.1/Server/tomcat /bin/startup.sh

Language building blocks  Objects  Attributes  Constraints  Methods, Events and Handlers  Animators  Data Access  Classes

Putting It all together  Walkthrough the kwlug-splash application

Where to go from here  Documentation included Laszlo explorer Developer's guide Examples

Questions?