Developer(s) Malte Ubl License New BSD License | Written in JavaScript | |
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Stable release 2.1 / August 2, 2009 (2009-08-02) Type Web application framework | ||
Joose is an open-source self-hosting metaobject system for JavaScript with support for classes, inheritance, mixins, traits and aspect-oriented programming.
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 Perl 6 object system, but unlike Perl and Moose, Joose doesn't support multiple inheritance.
Example
Two classes written in Joose:
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.