Just an FYI, I wrote up a how-to document on switching the ATG Commerce Reference Store (CRS) to use dojo from Google’s CDN. We’ve used on a couple of high profile client sites successfully in recent months. Here’s a link: https://community.atg.com/docs/DOC-1969

-Ben

P.S. For the record, dojo is complicated and confusing to me, whereas jQuery _just makes sense_.

older version of DOJO:
dijit.byId(“brandsDiv”).setHref(url2);

new version of DOJO:
dijit.byId(“brandsDiv”).attr(‘href’, url2);

DOJO gives you full stack and control and all hosted in one standard place. It is a painful experience to look for right plugins, and you’re on your own to make sure a plugin is well written, code to standards, tested, scalable and maintainable.

While I don’t begrudge the author here for wanting to find a ‘simple’ solution to his AJAX calling problem, it might be worth mentioning that things rarely stay simple and that more control over the process is usually need at some point in the future. The Dojo example is more ‘complicated’, but offers much more control and script interface transparency. For many of us, this easily outweighs the need for simplicity. And the comment and example by ‘Charles Z’ is right on.

I’m not familiar with all of jQuery’s functions, but I imagine that similar AJAX control and program interface options are available too. The simple call shown above just uses default values which could be modified otherwise (I suspect). If not, the above would be useless to me for serious web programming (which I doubt is the case since jQuery is held in such high regard). Anyway, the point is that jQuery is very useful and so is the Dojo Toolkit. The above example doesn’t present a strong argument either way. Just use what you prefer or what works best for your current project. I happen to use Dojo more, but jQuery is just as good an alternative for many (most?) cases.

my.loadPage(domName, url2) {
dojo.xhrGet( {
// The following URL must match that used to test the server.
url : url2,
handleAs : “text”,
timeout : 5000, // Time in milliseconds

// The LOAD function will be called on a successful response.
load : function(response, ioArgs) {
dojo.byId(domName).innerHTML = response;
return response;
},

// The ERROR function will be called in an error case.
error : function(response, ioArgs) {
console.error(“HTTP status code: “, ioArgs.xhr.status);
return response;
}
});
}

then just use call
my.loadPage(“#brandDiv”, url2)