A computer-implemented method is disclosed for generating Dojo-conforming JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) objects for base objects of an object-oriented programming environment that have been annotated to denote which attribute declarations of the base object correspond to identified Dojo attributes. In a Java class, for example, annotations may be made to indicate which class attributes correspond to the identifier attribute of a Dojo JSON object and based on those annotations a Dojo-conforming JSON object may be generated.