Ext JS - AJAX Framework

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.

I’ve had my eyes on Ruby-based ExtJS code-generation tools for a few years now. Back in Ext-1.0 days, I even took a shot at creating a large Rails wrapper framework, mapping Ext UI widgets to plain-old Ruby-objects which could be stored in YAML files and rendered into views. However, with Ext-2.0+ came new ideas which brought many changes to the framework (great new component-model, plugins, xtype, normalized component configuration-objects) and the Rails wrapper framework was rendered immediately obsolete. Until recently, I gave up on auto-generating ExtJS code and concentrated upon writing good Ext plugins and base-classes.