> It is important to note that the way we use Jangaroo at CoreMedia, we do
> *not* use JooFlash (the Flash API emulation). > Instead, we build UIs in ActionScript and EXML (an MXML dialect), using Ext > JS through a (generated) ActionScript API. > We call this approach Ext AS: > https://github.com/CoreMedia/jangaroo-tools/wiki/Ext-AS > I have just recently successfully experimented with using original MXML > instead of EXML and will soon post a demo application. > This means you can build full-scale Ext JS applications in AS3 and MXML! > Hi Frank, I'm really glad to read about this, if you read the "[ASJS] Integration with existing JS libraries and components" you will see that I was actually talking about exactly what you're describing. So I'm pretty happy that we actually already have a proven implementation of my idea, haha. > So actually our solutions are all quite similar in that they do not use the > standard Flex component implementation code (Erik uses only the API) nor > the Flash API. > My Vision is that Apache Flex can be used to fully compile AS3 + MXML to > JavaScript and allows using the component library of your choice (Flex-API > re-implemented, completely new one, or and Ext JS or other JS UI library > bridge). After all, Flex has a tradition of changing the component library > ;-) > Haha, these were EXACTLY my thoughts too :) > What I like about Ext JS is that this is not a newly invented component > framework, but you can find lots of information and experience about Ext JS > on the web. It already has a declarative notation, namely a JSON format, > that can straight-forwardly be transformed to/from MXML. > Plus. Sencha/ExtJS is the most popular framework for enterprise JS apps out there at the moment. So if Apache Flex offers great support and integration with it we'll probably earn a lot of fans right out the door. cheers, Roland
