Coldfusion 8 utilises extJS1.1 and since then extJS has now gone to version 2.2
My suggestion would be to look at your requirements first, if you need to extJS and it fits within your constraints on license then I would use extJS2.2 over extJS1.1 The major advantages are more widgets/gadgets better support and easier integration than you could ever want to with Coldfusion 8. I have been using extJS since V1.1 well before Coldfusion released their version 8, and I can tell you that the limitations to the UI functions in COldfusion has seen me never use these new features. And it is not hard to use either. For example Var test - Ext.PanelGrid(); Will create a panel grid. Anyway, have a look over at coldext.riaforge.org And you will see what I mean, as this is extremely simple to use and implement you can use coldext on any flavour of the cfml engine you choose. However if you had browsed extJS.org you would have come across this information for yourself. Point being is that extJS will always be around 2 ahead of what Coldfusion has to implement, I actually started a project that would see extJS and compatible tags with Coldfusion 8 for openBD but ue to time constrainst I only have the basics of a cfwindow, cfdiv and a few other things. But the point is that Coldfusion 8 has old technology embeded in it, it is fine for simple stuff but for complex stuff you will fidn that it is limiting in what you can do with it. I blogged Coldfusion8 and a problem with using the cfgrid, it has since been fixed in Coldfusion 8.01 but it took 19 months for Adobe to release this fix. With coldext, you have the latest extJS or at least what license suits you. Some food for thought. -- Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 9015 8628 Mobile: 0404 998 273 -----Original Message----- From: Don L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 12:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Free BlueDragon? > Gerald Guido >I have a fair amount of experience with Open BD and Railo 3 beta using >Apache and Tomcat on Windows/Fedora/Centos. I would gladly answer any >questions. I would recommend posing your questions to the Open BD Google >Group @ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > >~G~ > Gerald Guido Thank you, Gerald, allow me to be lazy for a minute, cf8 comes with its own web server albeit it is for development only, and it can be installed siliently ("without user interaction" would probably be more accurate), and this capability (of silent installation + a default web server) is important to me. Secondly, the neat new features on presentation and UI enhancement/cfajax-driven ones like cfwindow, auto-suggest, cfajaxproxy etc. etc. are all critical to this little babe; Thirdly, performance-wise, code itself needs to be sold, sure, while open source libraries tend to be bloated (no disrespect to the talented developers), the cf server memory hog... worrys me... porting current app to BD? a sensible option or a road to nightmare? Don ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:311073 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
