qooxdoo comes as a single package to download (called the “SDK“), which contains everything you need to get started. For a full list of all available downloads, see here.

The SDK contains the entire framework including all source files. The API viewer is pre-generated and runs out-of-the-box. In order to use the powerful tool chain, which is indispensable for developing and deploying your apps, certain requirements have to be met. After download and unzipping the archive, please see the top-level readme.txt for further information.

As a true open source project qooxdoo uses public SVN repositories. You can monitor code changes at any time and you are welcome to contribute. You can check out directly from the repository. Please note, that such a development snapshot usually is not stable and not recommenced for production use.

Developing a qooxdoo application does not require a server. Of course, for the actual deployment of your final app you would use some kind of HTTP-aware backend. Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) allow for a very elegant client-server communication. There are several qooxdoo RPC servers available for Java, PHP, Perl and Python that you might want to integrate with your backend.