The folks at extjs.com have just released Ext1.1. I've been working the beta version of this release on a non-cf project, and it has some enticing features.
ColdFusion 8 shipped with Ext 1.0. Now this brings up some interesting questions about ColdFusion's integration with Extjs, and what CF8 developers using Extjs should do, if anything. Of course, one option is too ignore new releases. We have a working solution and that solution is supported by Adobe, so no action is required. Another option is to use ExtJs without the support of the new CF8 tags. This solution would, of course, work with any version of CF, but we give up all that wonderfully easy-to-use tag-based integration that Adobe has delivered. Still, a third option would be to use a lighter-weight tool. With Yahoo's YSLOW tool, you can see that a simple cflayout with a cftree in the left panel weighs in at 417.2k. My own opinion is that this is a little heavy for public-facing applications, but not for intranets, extranets, and administrator-type back-ends. There are a number of lighter-weight "frameworks", but most lack the rich widgets that ExtJs offers. Spry, jquery, mootools, are all examples of these kinds of tools. Now, back to extjs: I would think that if you tried upgrading the libraries in the CF8 distribution, it might work, and it might not. But even if it did, there might be and probably would be problems with support from Adobe you can't expect them to support something they are not shipping. At the moment, this doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Ajax and widget libraries by their very nature are much more release-volatile than an application server like CF. So, I wonder if Adobe has any plans to somehow support these newer releases, or do we just wait for CF9 for an update to the Ajax libraries to have a fully supported integration? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285192 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
