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cfext: ColdFusion wrapper for EXT

Posted At : March 5, 2008 8:33 PM | Posted By : Rob Gonda
Related Categories: Coldfusion,JS/DHTML

Dan Vega has been working on ColdFusion custom tag wrappers for EXT, and let me tell you, it looks pretty amazing.

Ext is an EXTremely powerful JavaScript library which I mostly use to develop RIA and heavy desktop-like applications. However, CF8 ships with YUI and EXT for all dhtml and Ajax behind the scenes, so you see where this is going ... There's no easy way to upgrade the Ext version shipped with CF8, and Ext 2.0 has so many more features and improvements...

So check out Dan's cfext at RiaForge or some examples on his blog: forms, layouts, ...

posted on March 5, 2008 at 8:33 PM by Rob Gonda

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Thanks for the plug Rob! It such a huge project, hopefully I can get it wrapped up in a month or so.

# Posted By Dan Vega | 3/5/08 10:34 PM

I love the Ajax features of CF8 but would like to kick it up a notch and use the oh-so-cool widgets and features of YUI and EXT more directly. Can anyone point me to a resource for this, where perhaps someone is doing this? (Replacing the YUI and EXT libraries, I guess?)

# Posted By Jeff Carpenter | 3/6/08 8:47 AM

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