Ext JS Tag Library?

[timefortea]

Hi all,

I've had a play around with ext js and its a great toolkit. We'd like to use it in our commercial product, for which we would be purchasing some developer licenses. The thing that is stopping us though, is that we aren't JavaScript developers - a tag library would be much more ideal for us. So I found ExtTLD which does just that - but its only got a GPL license, which means that we cannot use it...

So are there any other tag libraries out there which could be suitable? Ideally we'd like Ext to provide a tag library that had the same feature parity as Ext JS but I don't see that, so any other suggestions would be most welcome :)

Many thanks.

[geoffrey.mcgill]

We're (http://www.coolite.com/) building a .NET version of the library and all the widgets (will eventually) be available in markup/tag form. Our next release (0.5) is just about to drop and includes support for ViewPort and Layouts.

Example


<ext:Window runat="server" Html="Hello World!" />

A commercial license will be available to purchase with the 0.5 release. The purchase of a Coolite commercial license will also include a commercial license for ExtJS.

Hope this helps.

[timefortea]

Hi there,
Thanks for the info Geoffrey - but I'm afraid we aren't using .Net :( We require a JSP tag library, our application will be running under Tomcat/Struts and must run on Solaris and Linux. (I should have pointed this out in the first place).

Any other suggestions?

[hat27533]

Hi there,
Thanks for the info Geoffrey - but I'm afraid we aren't using .Net :( We require a JSP tag library, our application will be running under Tomcat/Struts and must run on Solaris and Linux. (I should have pointed this out in the first place).

Any other suggestions?

Why do you NEED a tag library?

We build EXTJS 2.1 applications with Java/Oracle back ends without it.

We use netbeans 6.1 that has good JavaScript support and including code completion for EXTJS.

[timefortea]

A good question. I don't need a tag library to build the core of our application but we want others in the team to be able to add plugins to our interface, with the minimum of effort but while maintaining the same look and feel. They aren't JavaScript programmers but know some JSP. So the least effort and cost from the company's perspective, is to have a JSP tag library - or something else.

I don't think that ExtJS is that difficult to learn but for a Java or C++ developer in our organisation, who quickly needs to knock up a plugin to our interface by themselves, I want the quickest way to do this. Another option I am considering is developing our own set of JSP tags, tailored to our corporate look and feel guidelines, which provides all the widgets they need - with the option to use real ExtJS if they so wish.

[chalu]

Why do you NEED a tag library?

We build EXTJS 2.1 applications with Java/Oracle back ends without it.

We use netbeans 6.1 that has good JavaScript support and including code completion for EXTJS.
I am about getting netbeans 6.1 for my next experimental project, I hear it has very good Javascript support. Does it support ExtJs out of the box or do I have to do configure something.