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Support Ext JS 3.0 [SWF-1143] #360

Open spring-operator opened 15 years ago

spring-operator commented 15 years ago

Matthew T. Adams opened SWF-1143 and commented

Please support Ext JS.

It looks like prerelease versions of SWF included support for Ext JS, but then a switch was made due to licensing incompatibilities. This request is tantamount to asking SpringSource and Ext JS to work out any licensing issues so that Ext JS is a supported toolkit in Spring Web Flow and/or Spring JavaScript.

I did notice at http://extjs.com/company/dual.php that Ext JS is dual licensed. Perhaps things have changed enough since the original license evaluation was done that the terms are agreeable.

Reference URL: http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=54713

4 votes, 3 watchers

spring-operator commented 15 years ago

David Lefebvre commented

We are a large company heavily vested in SWF, and have been using it very the very early days. Our company takes licensing very seriously, and cannot have anything to do with GPL software. Ext 3.0 is GPL software and all the exception clauses make no difference to its viral aspect. Our legal team simply will not approve this. Infact we also use DWR and were strongly opposed to the inclusion of any Ext related code in DWR. Fortunately the DWR team dropped the idea of integrating with Ext.

If SWF does include code related to Ext, it will be catastrophic for us as we would have to reinvest in a project rewrite using some other technology - we haven't evaluated any alternatives as we are very happy with SWF. I urge you to take this matter seriously.

spring-operator commented 14 years ago

Eros Sy commented

I think supporting ExtJs by SWF doesn't affect your large company's existing project, client (ExtJs) and server (Spring) side frameworks are wholly different entities. Therefore, you don't need to reinvest for project rewrite but embracing new technologies for new projects perhaps.

we're suggesting SWF to support it for smooth combination although still possible even it doesn't but need a lot of time to do so. Spring lets you to focus on the Logical Part as possible not smoothly combining the technologies.

In behalf of the Spring&ExtJs people (we're increasing for sure), please reconsider to support ExtJs that I think Spring doesn't have yet a client framework that can provide best architecture.