[ckan-dev] recline model: is the jquery dep necessary?

[James Casbon]

Just had a go at loading the recline model parts.  Now I want to load
them in a non browser js environment (think web worker/node.js), but
there seems to be a jquery dependency - which may be unnecessary.   If
it is, it would help me to reuse the data code out of the browser if
it was dropped.

For example, the code in http://okfnlabs.org/recline/src/model.js is
wrapped in :

 (function($, my) {
     ... all the code
 }(jQuery, this.recline.Model));

Can someone enlighten me as to what this does and whether it needs
jquery to do it?

thanks,
James