Ext

We love to see all the different types of applications developed using Ext. SingleHop has developed LEAP, a server management application that gives the end user significant power over administering their remote servers via the web. I recently spoke with Dan Ushman, a co-founder of SingleHop, to get the scoop on LEAP and find out more about how they used Ext.

Ext GWT 1.1 development is moving along nicely and includes a new Grid component. Grid is based on the Ext JS Grid and will support the same features including grid plugins, grouping, totaling, and inline editing.

Early last week Yahoo announced they had released a new search API dubbed “BOSS” for “Build your Own Search Service” - wow, snazzy name. So being the explorer that I am, I started to play with it and poke around in the API - hold on! this is just the same search API service they offered up a while ago - what gives?

The Ext GWT Store and Binder API work with ModelData instances. The primary goal of ModelData is to provide a type of “introspection” as GWT does not allow runtime inspection of Java objects. With the new Java Bean support in 1.1, any Java Bean can be sent over the wire, and “converted” to model data instances to be used with stores and binders.

A commonly requested piece of functionality is to load additional data when scrolling to the bottom of a dataset. DZone is a popular technology news site that uses this type of functionality on their home page. As you scroll to the bottom of a page, a loading indicator displays and then loads new content. This is not a feature which Ext provides out of the box, however by leveraging existing Ext components the task becomes simple.

The Ext team is proud to announce that the official release of Ext GWT v1.0 is available for download. This is the first release of Ext GWT which is the culmination of many weeks of development from the Ext development team as well as our community of testers and supporters.

Theres no doubt that Google has some interesting and very useful JavaScript APIs - most of which I end up using over and over again. So why not package them up into an Ext component? Well thats exactly what I decided to do, adding a simple component centered around the Google Maps API.