Any news on this? I am currently doing some rudimentary Ext.Direct stuff with Lift myself. I would gladly help out there.
Best, Dirk Louwers On Aug 31, 7:30 pm, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Josh Suereth > <joshua.suer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > I believe the core of ExtJS is now MIT licenesed (the widgets being GPL > > with Commercial licenses available). You could potentially build the Ajax > > calls on top of this (as long as you stay away from ui components). Then > > users who have bought an ExtJS subscription (like my company) would have a > > much easier time moving to lift! I believe the ExtJS core supports many of > > the same operations as jQuery's core. > > Josh, > > Feel free (encouraged, even) to do the ExtJS core layer for Lift... just > ping me privately for the specifics of being a Lift committer. > > Thanks, > > David > > > > > > > - Josh > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Charles F. Munat <c...@munat.com> wrote: > > >> I haven't used Ext.Direct yet, but I am currently building a site (three > >> sites, really) that uses Ext JS 3.0 for the front end. > > >> One site is essentially a CRUD app. The back end is a PostgreSQL > >> database. The middle layer is a Lift app that uses JPA/Hibernate to > >> access the database. It provides a REST interface to the data that > >> accepts and returns JSON. (I've hand written this but must learn more > >> about Lift's JSON capabilities.) > > >> The front end is pure Ext JS. All connections to the database are via > >> AJAX-like calls (AJAJ?). The REST interface is pretty pure, using only > >> GET, PUT, and DELETE. > > >> (I like idempotency, so I don't use POST. The back end generates UUIDs > >> and prepopulates the add forms with a UUID, then the create calls use > >> the same URL as the update calls. If the object with that ID already > >> exists, it is updated. If it doesn't, it is created. Thus all calls are > >> idempotent. This also improves security, as you're, um, unlikely to > >> guess a UUID.) > > >> I'd be happy to talk to you about this. It's still in the early stages, > >> but I have to debut it in a couple weeks if not sooner (what's new?), so > >> I'll be zooming through the front end stuff over the next few days. > > >> I plan for all future sites that I build in Lift to follow a similar > >> pattern on the front end. > > >> Chas. > > >> Naftoli Gugenheim wrote: > >> > Has anyone used lift with Ext.JS forms/Ext.Direct? > > >> > P.S. It would be neat if it could interact with Lift's JSON support. I > >> wonder what it would take. > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some:http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
