Joose (framework)

Open-source self-hosting metaobject system for JavaScript

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Joose
Developer(s)Malte Ubl
Stable release
2.1 / August 2, 2009 (2009-08-02)
Written inJavaScript
TypeWeb application framework
LicenseNew BSD License
Websitehttps://code.google.com/p/joose-js/

The Joose meta-object system is multi-paradigm. It supports class-based and prototype-based programming styles as well as class-based inheritance and role-based extension. While other JavaScript frameworks often specialize on DOM-access and AJAX, Joose specializes solely on bringing successful programming techniques to the JavaScript scripting language. Joose is thus often used in conjunction with another DOM/Ajax JavaScript framework and is tested with jQuery, YUI, Dojo, ExtJS, Prototype, Mootools and PureMVC.

Joose was heavily inspired by Moose, the object system for Perl 5 which was itself inspired by the Perl 6 object system, but unlike Perl and Moose, Joose doesn't support multiple inheritance.

Example

Two classes written in Joose:

<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript"> Class("Point", {

   has: {
       x: {is: "rw"},
       y: {is: "rw"}
   },
   methods: {
       clear: function () {
           this.setX(0);
           this.setY(0);
       }
   }

});

Class("Point3D", {

   isa: Point,
   has: {
       z: {is: "rw"}
   },
   after: {
       clear: function () {
           this.setZ(0);
       }
   }

}); </syntaxhighlight>

Point3D is a subclass of Point. It has another attribute defined and additional code to run after running the superclass clear() method. The "rw" means the attribute is readable and writable with a pair of get/set accessors generated automatically.

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