Ext

The Ext team is proud to announce that Ext v2.0 Beta 1 is available for download. This release of the Ext framework features updated portal and desktop examples, documentation updates, and bug fixes.

Adobe recently held a contest called the Adobe AIR Derby, an international competition open to software and web application developers to showcase their skill in using Adobe AIR Beta software. Contestants were able to submit their entries to different application categories and were judged on originality, visual design and appeal, usability, and application of Adobe AIR functionality in the following categories: best business application, best community application, and wild card.

InfoQ.com, an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development, recently interviewed Ext founder Jack Slocum about the latest release of Ext, version 2.0 alpha.

Ext developer Yuki Naotori of Tokyo was the first place winner in Sun Microsystems’ Japan Mashup Award 3rd contest. His winning application, ONGMAP.com, is a geo mashup that collects a vast range of information about what is at a given location and makes it easily locatable on a map of the world.
“If you look at ONGMAP.COM, you can easily notice it owes a lot to Ext (and if you look into its source code, you can easily notice that I’m not a professional programmer…, but, I did win the award thanks to Ext’s powerful and easy to use framework)”