On DOJO and Dijits
I attended a session on Dojo yesterday and I can’t say I’m impressed. The speaker was good and enthousiastic but it just felt like another general purpose ajax-enabled javascript framework. Especially the remarks that DOJO is inherently slow and includes 40 other .js files for one request if you include all the features were adding to my suspicion that I was right in never giving it a go.
The thing that really struck me though was that you can circumvent the 40+ include problem by, here it comes, recompiling dojo with a custom made built script that is read by java which will output a compressed dojo package that you can use.
IMHO, if you need a java packager for a javascript framework you might want to rethink your approach.