[FLOW3-general] Rumours of Phoenix dropping ExtJS?

[Regine Rosewich]

Hi guys,

I was, to a certain extend, involved in the "ExtJs-story" because I made the
first attempt to migrate the Phoenix-ExtJs 3 Backend to ExtJs 4. I failed.
In a second attempt to get the Phoenix-Backend migrated from ExtJs 3 to
ExtJs 4 we (mainly the guys of the Phoenix Development team) got the Backend
working again under ExtJs 4 but this attempt showed that the differences
between ExtJs 3 and ExtJs 4 were so substantial that it would have been
better to completely refactor the ExtJs Backend in order to get it really
working.

That was the moment, when the the Phoenix-Development team switched to
Sproutcore - what I can understand - moreover as the ExtJs basic theming is
not really modern in terms of Rich-Internet-Applications.

As I then had - an still have - a real big Project under development using
FLOW3 and the Phoenix-ExtJs Backend, I kept working with those two. In the
meantime I entirely refactored the Phoenix-ExtJs Backend in order to follow
the MVC-Paradigm of ExtJs 4 (with an application, controllers, views, models
and stores). So the good news is that the ExtJs-Backend of Phoenix/Flow3 is
not yet completely dead. The bad news is that I entirely adapted it to the
needs of my project an only used the core of the Phoenix-ExtJs Backend
(registry and lazy loading) but the rest is still there. 

The really good experience I made with FLOW3 and ExtJs 4 is that both are
really open in any direction. So I'm pretty sure that there will be an
Phonix-ExtJs Backend if the community wants it because it's absolutely no
Problem to have multiple Backends connected to FLOW3.

Regine Rosewich