Hi Denis,Well, yes, you're right
It is hard not to notice (for us that had a chance to see some of your work) that first visible effect of your framework is improving user experience during repository browsing
Sometimes, I tend to over complicate my sentences Speaking of AlfExt, any plans for i18n and L10n? Or is that already addressed?AlfExt is reusing Alfresco message bundles, therefore all dictionary related messages (doc types, tasks, properties, assocs..) are already localized. Localizing the rest of the messages found on the UI is pretty straight forward since these are all contained within server side message bundles.
Apple's new MobileMe web applications were built on a powerful java script framework called SproutCore (http://www.sproutcore.com/). It would make it another great framework for another RIA client.
well, as Denis said AlfExt is a complete server side framework and is also adding some new features to Alfresco services. My opinion is that Alfext is not even comparable to the other solutions, ok maybe the UI is similar but when it comes to development there is no possible comparison. I am not preaching for my own church here 
Jan, joining our forces would be nice you know that
Jan, joining our forces would be nice you know that
Hi Daniel :wink:
I wasn't saying that AlfExt is just like all the other solutions, I was more in the line that, besides having different and much more ambitious goal (and much much much thoughtful architecture), it also sports arguably the best UI of them all, even in this phase of development.
Now is actually a great time to have some kind of simpler/modern UI solution for Alfresco for enterprises, with Alfresco team obviously going (to me not very understandable) collaboration way.
However, your project still has an unfortunately low visibility, unlike Docasu that comes from bigger company, and was announced through regular channels, like next world wonder
Jan is mostly right (although he is partially to blame for this situation, with starting Opsoro and leaving it in prototype phase ), there are too many efforts under way now, and some kind of joining forces would be very nice. But, without greatly improving presence and visibility of AlfExt, guys from Optaros with Docasu will steal your thunder.
So, I'm waiting for some kind of official announcement, besides just writing about it on forums
I wasn't saying that AlfExt is just like all the other solutions, I was more in the line that, besides having different and much more ambitious goal (and much much much thoughtful architecture), it also sports arguably the best UI of them all, even in this phase of development.
Now is actually a great time to have some kind of simpler/modern UI solution for Alfresco for enterprises, with Alfresco team obviously going (to me not very understandable) collaboration way.
However, your project still has an unfortunately low visibility, unlike Docasu that comes from bigger company, and was announced through regular channels, like next world wonder
Jan is mostly right (although he is partially to blame for this situation, with starting Opsoro and leaving it in prototype phase
), there are too many efforts under way now, and some kind of joining forces would be very nice. But, without greatly improving presence and visibility of AlfExt, guys from Optaros with Docasu will steal your thunder. So, I'm waiting for some kind of official announcement, besides just writing about it on forums
So, I'm waiting for some kind of official announcement, besides just writing about it on forums
Filip, just to notice that we did not started this thread and thus we did not make any announcement. Btw, for your information this project is not just in a development phase but it is running at some places and we do have a release of it. It is true that some new features are in development and that we are refactoring the code but that is a normal product lifecycle I guess. But please do not say it is a prototype …
Right now there is no open source license for AlfExt and cannot tell you when there will be one, but for sure the complete UI will not be opensource or at least free of any charge for enterprise users. If you are interested in testing it and seeing a demo as indicating on our site you are free to contact us and we will be glad to schedule a demo for you or anybody else.
Later on we will do some marketing but we do not have the time for that and we are going to show some new cool stuff in October at the Alfresco conference in Munich (actually that is a wish), after that some marketing will start and probably in Q1 2009.
Kind regards,
Daniel
Hey Guys,
With all the Alternate UIs available, I created a special Wiki category to track these and put a few starter pages in there. Since a lot of people come to the wiki to find information about Alfresco and Extensions, I think having a listing of these will be a good thing - will help others find the great work that you are doing.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Category:Alternate_UIs
Feel free to also use the partner maintainced page templates if you are a partner and want to get a bit of extra credit for the cool work you did!
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Category
artner-Maintained_Pages
Thanks,
Jean
With all the Alternate UIs available, I created a special Wiki category to track these and put a few starter pages in there. Since a lot of people come to the wiki to find information about Alfresco and Extensions, I think having a listing of these will be a good thing - will help others find the great work that you are doing.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Category:Alternate_UIs
Feel free to also use the partner maintainced page templates if you are a partner and want to get a bit of extra credit for the cool work you did!
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Category
artner-Maintained_PagesThanks,
Jean
