Recently there seems to be a lot of libraries that are being created using Jquery.
Joomla has been traditionally used with the mootools library. Instead of using this library, I have opted to instead use the Jquery library.
I created a component for myself and loaded the jQuery library into one of the sub folders of this Joomla component. I further instructed Joomla to load the javascript file.
Keeping my fingers crossed I wrote this syntex in the template file
<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function(){alert(‘hello world’)});
</script>
And Eureka!! It worked. Now I will go on further extending Joomla to create a very user friendly component for my clients which have been facing lots of problems with the counter-intuitive Joomla Administration interface.