Rising energy and maintenance costs due to aging street lighting equipment are some among many of the reasons local authorities are choosing to invest in PLANet — ‘Public Lighting Active Network’ from Telensa. Using a robust Ext-based user interface to control up to 150,000 lights wirelessly, PLANet from Telensa can measure each lamp individually and switch on any combination of lamps within seconds. Get a unique insight into the development challenges faced at Telensa using Ext JS as their front-end of choice.

We are pleased to announce that a beta version of Ext JS 3.2 is now publicly available. 3.2 introduces a number of exciting new components and adds great new capabilities to your existing applications.

cara3, built on Ext GWT, is an ergonomically designed, fast, single browser window that connects individually or simultaneously to different document repositories, like Documentum and Sharepoint.

With many of our developers moving to Git for smaller internal projects, and with Ext JS 3.1.1 just released, we decided to take the opportunity to move development of Ext to Git.

HTML5 is coming. All of us at Ext are excited to embrace the new standard as it gains acceptance. This post will examine two notable HTML5 developments – Video and Canvas. The video tag allows for native video rendering, removing the current need for third-party plugins like Flash. Likewise, the canvas tag has a clean yet very powerful API allowing you to draw complex graphics at the pixel level.

Spiral 2.0 is a browser-based desktop used by schools to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve their management and administration. Built on Ext GWT, Spiral Universe has become the fastest growing School Information System available.

On behalf of the Ext Team, I am extremely excited to announce the final release of Ext JS 3.1. With this release we rededicate ourselves to making Ext JS the best it can be, in both features and performance.

Creating custom Web components can prove challenging without a good foundation. Fortunately, the Ext GWT framework contains a Component API that provides the ability to quickly and easily create custom components while using Java. This post will walk you through the steps needed to create our ContentScroller – an Ext GWT UX component.

When creating a cross browser RIA, choosing a framework with a plethora of components is where most of us look first. Selecting a framework that enables you the flexibility to enhance and expand its offering becomes very important. Fortunately, Ext JS has all the rich UI functionality that most applications require coupled with a vibrant community creating impressive extensions. Ext’s elegant design allows us to explore our creativity by adding new features to existing widgets.

We are very excited to share our latest version of the Ext JS Designer. This new version adds many new features to improve your efficiency creating application designs. Once you get accustomed to these features its difficult to live without them. For those of you that don't have the time or ability to download and play around with the Designer, we have created a Preview screencast in which we mock up some interfaces. We have tried to show off as much features and functionality as possible.