Ext

JackBe, the leading provider of enterprise mashup software, partnered with Ext JS to support the creation of sophisticated mashup widgets. By JackBe leveraging Ext JS, our community now has the added benefit of being “mashup-ready” developers. Much of JackBe’s mashup UI technology is based on Ext JS. As an Ext JS developer, you’ll be right at home developing custom Mashlets using all your Ext JS knowledge.

Retrieve data from Yahoo’s Flickr service to create an engaging an Ext Image Gallery powered by Flickr’s latest images. Flickr is a popular image sharing management tool that allows users to create online photo albums and tag photos. By extending Ext’s native data package we can pull this data directly into Ext’s data Store to drive an Ext Image Gallery component capable of searching and paging through the results.

Creating cross-browser consistent visualizations of data without Adobe’s Flash plugin has always been a difficult issue to address. Google introduced a Visualization API earlier this year which enables you to present tabular data in the form of charts, maps, and other graphical representations without the need for Flash. (Some visualizations actually do use flash, but most are implemented with SVG and/or VML.) Working with different API’s can present hurdles as we attempt to massage the same data in two different data structures - one for a grid and another for a pie chart. To address this specific challenge, I developed …