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jMaki wrappers for ExtJs now available

In a joint effort with the ExtJs toolkit team, the jMaki wrappers for the ExtJs 1.1 toolkit are now available, jmaki-ext-1.0.1.zip. Included are wrappers for the menu, grid and tree widgets from the ExtJs toolkit. The wrappers support the jMaki data and event models as described on our wiki.

You have several options for including the widget library in your application. If you use NetBeans follow the instructions for adding the jmaki-charting widget library on Ludo's blog. Simply load the ExtJs library you downloaded instead of jmaki-charting. You can then drag and drop widgets from the palette into your application. Otherwise unzip the widget library into your application and add the appropriate tag to your page. For example, the ExtJs grid tag including default data looks like:

 <a:widget name="Ext.grid"
    value="{columns : [
     { label : 'Title', id : 'title'},
     { label :'Author', id : 'author'},
     { label : 'ISBN', id : 'isbn'},
     { label : 'Description', id : 'description'}
     ],
     rows : [
     { title : 'Book Title 1', author : 'Author 1', isbn: '4412', description : 'A Some long description'},
     { id : 'bar', title : 'Book Title 2', author : 'Author 2', isbn : '4412', description : 'A Some long description'}
     ]
     }" />

jMaki 1.0.3 available

jMaki, a client server framework for creating Ajax web applications, is how shipping release 1.0.3. This release contains several bug fixes, and integrates Yahoo UI 2.4 release. In addition, one of the developers, Ahmad Zawawi, wrote a test harness using JS/glue/JSP and updated the the Yahoo and Dojo unit tests to run in the test harness. Now we can run the unit tests automatically. Currently we are testing that the widgets get loaded. Future plans include integration with 2.4.0 YUI asynchronous Test suite.

Ahmad's work has been a great help in testing this release and we will look to automated testing as part of the builds. I've uploaded the test bundles that contain the latest changes. You can run the tests manually or try out the automated harness.

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