Using prototype with Jquery

Question

Is there any way of using prototype to coexist with Jquery.

What i mean is not Jquery with prototype with the Jquery NoConflict tag but the other way around.

I have to override prototypes utility methods to coexist with other libraries?

I have no control over the Jquery Scripts

Answer 1

When jQuery is included, it takes a copy of whatever is defined as $ and stores a reference to it. When you use jQuery.noConflict it restores that reference, and returns jQuery which allows you to "rename" jQuery.

If you want to rename Prototype, that should be entirely possible.

// 1. include Prototype
//    $ == Prototype
// 2. include jQuery
//    $ == jQuery

var jq = jQuery.noConflict();
var $p = $;
$ = jq;

// now, $ == jQuery
// and $p == Prototype