Zammetti Practical Ext JS Projects with Gears

1. ed
ISBN: 978-1-4302-1925-5
Verlag: Apress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 600 Seiten

Discover Ext JS, one of today's most powerful and highly regarded JavaScript frameworks, with perhaps the best set of GUI widgets around, and a whole host of components that make developing client-side applications a breeze. Using a pragmatic approach, you'll dissect seven full-fledged applications, covering How Ext JS allows you to create these applications with a slick user interface with a minimum of effort How the other parts of Ext JS aside from the GUI widgets provide many of the capabilities modern applications need, such as Ajax and data mechanisms How other technologies such as Gears can be brought in to make the applications more powerful

Frank W. Zammetti is a web architect specialist for a leading worldwide financial company by day, and a PocketPC and open-source developer by night. He is the founder and chief software architect of Omnytex Technologies, a PocketPC development house.He has over 12 years of 'professional' experience in the information technology field, and over 12 more of 'amateur' experience. He began his nearly life-long love of computers at age 7, when he became one of four students chosen to take part in his school district's pilot computer program. A year later, he was the only participant left! The first computer Frank owned was a Timex Sinclair 1000 in 1982, on which he wrote a program to look up movie times for all of Long Island (and without the 16k expansion module!). After that, he moved on to a Commodore 64 and spent about 4 years doing nothing but assembly programming (games mostly). He finally got his first IBM-compatible PC in 1987, and began learning the finer points of programming (as they existed at that time!).Frank has primarily developed web-based applications for about 8 years. Before that, he developed Windows-based client/server applications in a variety of languages. Frank holds numerous certifications including SCJP, MCSD, CNA, i-Net+, A+, CIW, MCP, and numerous BrainBench certifications. He is a contributor to a number of open source projects, including DataVision, Struts, PocketFrog, and Jakarta Commons. In addition, Frank has started two projects: Java Web Parts and The Struts Web Services Enablement Project. He also was one of the founding members of a project that created the first fully functioning Commodore 64 emulator for PocketPC devices (PocketHobbit).Frank has authored various articles on topics that range from integrating DataVision into web apps, to using Ajax in Struts-based applications. He is working on a new application framework specifically geared to creating next-generation web applications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zammetti, Frank

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents at a Glance;5
2;Contents;6
3;About the Author;12
4;About the Technical Reviewer;13
5;About the Illustrator;14
6;Acknowledgments;15
7;Introduction;16
7.1;An Overview of This Book;17
7.2;Obtaining This Book’s Source Code;18
7.3;Obtaining Updates for this Book;18
7.4;Contacting the Author;18
8;Introducing Web Development with Ext JS;21
8.1;The Evolution of the Web: Web Sites vs. Web Applications;21
8.2;The Rise of the Cool: Rich Internet Applications;24
8.3;Enter Ajax: The Driving Force behind RIAs;27
8.4;The Evolution of Web Development;31
8.5;Choice Is Good: Toolkits Make It a Breeze;32
8.6;Enter Ext JS: The Best of the Bunch;34
8.7;Fisher Price;37
8.8;Ext JS’s High-Level Organizational Structure;38
8.9;The Ext Namespace;52
8.10;The Ext.util Namespace;62
8.11;But...but...What About the Widgets?;73
8.12;One Last Tangential Thing: Ext Core;73
8.13;Summary;74
9;Widgets and Advanced Ext JS;75
9.1;Ext JS Widgets: An Overview;75
9.2;Working with Data in Ext JS;119
9.3;The Template and XTemplate Classes;123
9.4;Drag and Drop;127
9.5;The “State” of Things;134
9.6;For Your Date in the Boardroom: Ext JS Charting;136
9.7;Plug-ins;140
9.8;These Are the Gears That Power the Tubes!;141
9.9;Summary;145
10;Ext JS for a Busy Lifestyle: OrganizerExt;147
10.1;What’s This Application Do Anyway?;147
10.2;Overall Structure and Files;149
10.3;The Markup;150
10.4;The Style Sheet;157
10.5;The Code;160
10.6;Suggested Exercises;208
10.7;Summary;209
11;Making Project Management Cool: TimekeeperExt;210
11.1;What’s This Application Do Anyway?;210
11.2;Overall Structure and Files;213
11.3;The Markup;215
11.4;The Style Sheet;216
11.5;The Code;218
11.6;Suggested Exercises;272
11.7;Summary;273
12;A Place for Your Stuff: Code Cabinet Ext;274
12.1;What’s This Application Do, Anyway?;275
12.2;Overall Structure and Files;276
12.3;The Markup;278
12.4;The Style Sheet;279
12.5;The Code;279
12.6;Suggested Exercises;323
12.7;Summary;323
13;When the Yellow Pages Just Isn’t Cool Enough: Local Business Search;324
13.1;What’s This Application Do Anyway?;325
13.2;The