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Contents 1 Introduction 2 xQuiD Community 3 xQuiD Core 3.1 Getting Started 3.2 Tutorials 3.3 API User's Guide 4 xQuiD Eclipse Plugin 4.1 Getting started

Introduction

xQuiD is an open-source RIA framework made to satisfy business requirements while keeping high levels of performance in a fully RIA environment. To improve business applications development, among other features, xQuiD offers a REST JavaScript client, a useful and complete set of reusable visual components and a declarative way to build your applications.

xQuiD framework is formed by two pieces:

• xQuiD Core: JavaScript open-source library that provides a JavaScript framework to build RIA and Ajax applications. The major part of this documentation wiki refers to xQuiDCore.
• xQuiD Eclipse Plug-in: Based on xQuiD Core JavaScript code, this plug-in enhances developers productivity by providing a rich IDE where them can make rich user interfaces by drag-n-drop.

xQuiD Community

xQuiD Core is an open-source project, so the community can contribute in different kind of tasks:

• Helping other users on Forums, Wiki and on the Tracker system
• Reviewing and writing documentation
• Working on chips (xQuiD widgets) visual design and features
• Reporting bugs and submitting test cases to help developers solve them quickly
• Writing patches to fix bugs
• Submitting code for new features

You can learn more about xQuiD community visiting the Community Rules section of the project's Web site or entering the xQuid Community Portal located in this Wiki.

xQuiD Core

xQuiD Core provides an Ajax/RIA framework specially designed to develop RIA (Rich Internet Applications). As an Ajax JavaScript framework, xQuiD has a lot of features, many of them hard to understand and start to use if you don't have read some explanations about its functionality. We know how boring can be to read all documentation before starting to use a framework so, although we encourage you to take a look at the full API User's guide, it would be better to follow our Starting Guide to taste a little of our Ajax framework and have an idea how it works.

Getting Started

• Downloading xQuiD
• Adding xQuiD to your Web application
• Making your first xQuiD Application

Tutorials

Once you know how to start using xQuiD, if want to learn more you may follow the wiki Tutorials.

API User's Guide

To get a deep view of the framework, read the API User's guide.

xQuiD Eclipse Plugin

xQuiD Eclipse Plug-in provides a complete Integrated Development Environment built on top of xQuiD Core, powering developers productivity by adding drag & drop web 2.0 development capabilites to the Eclipse Platform.

More information can be found in the tools section of the project's Website.

Getting started

To start using xQuiD Eclipse plug-in we recommend to follow the following steps:

• Download the plug-in: xQuiD Eclipse Plugin can be downloaded from the project's Website.
• Install the plug-in, using Eclipse Update Manager. A video on youtube shows how to install xQuiD Plug-in.
• Visit the xQuiD framework YouTube's channel to view some helpful video tutorials.