I was told IBM no-longer uses Dojo. Is this true? A small amount of web searching shows IBM is/was a member of the Dojo Foundation and is/was a code contributor... If it is true, approximately when did IBM stop using Dojo? If its not, to what extend is IBM still actively using and promoting the toolkit (use in their public web sites, product integration/bundling, etc)?
That's perhaps why I was told what I was told. That is interesting, though. They are supporters of it, but not users of it? That's rather convenient.
Timothy
2010-06-07 04:43:36
Timothy, IBM uses Dojo quite a bit in its products.
peller
2010-06-08 19:41:18
jQuery is used in some of the header and footer for the social share bar, etc. IBM eats their own dog food when it comes to Dojo and use it extensively in their products, as well as on their web site. Remember IBM.com has years of development and some items are older than others, as well they have a lot of third party providers that may provide widgets to them as finished components (that require jQuery).
kls
2010-06-17 01:47:16
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Looking at http://bugs.dojotoolkit.org/timeline, I recognize names of IBMers: Bill, Peller, DouHays, ...
But you're right: Dojo+Domino (aka Dojomino) seems to be stopped...
Interesting question!
Dom Derrien
2010-06-04 18:47:08
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Timothy.
Yes, IBM actively uses and supports Dojo.
Don't ask why I know this. ;)
Rev316
2010-06-05 05:06:58
For me and I would assume a good portion of others, IBM backing Dojo lends weight to the fact that it will become the front-end toolkit for the enterprise AKA Java shops. What I would really like to know is whether Oracle will pick up Sun's backing of Dojo, which would all but guarantee it's place in the enterprise.
kls
2010-06-17 01:59:18
IBM is here. Regarding Oracle... They still don't know what to do with Sun's legacy so we have to wait and see. I wish I had a better answer.
Eugene Lazutkin
2010-06-17 05:25:24
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@Ehsan, you put your finger on one of the biggest misconceptions in this field. Most companies' website has a separate team and set of requirements for their website. It has no relationship typically to the products the organization develops and ships, and the libraries and frameworks they choose to help them do that.
Sam Foster
2010-06-15 12:57:19
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IBM is a very large development organization with 5 separate and distinct software brands and many many products in each so to ask whether the entire organization still uses Dojo or not may a bit misleading. It could be the case that a certain team or product has stopped using Dojo but I can definitely tell you many still do. Aside from still being listed as a Dojo sponsor and contributor on the Dojo Foundation's website: there are active and very recent developments going on around Dojo.
One very interesting thing is JDojo, essentially a translator that lets you write Dojo in Java that then gets translated thus giving you strong typing and Eclipse IDE features. You can check out its wiki page here: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/JDojo (registration required) or google some blog posts or twitter (can't post links yet on this account)
Brent Barkman
2010-06-22 04:43:50