Jibe framework

[daniel_gradecak]

After a lot of hard working time we are glad to announce the first release of our Jibe framework, which is a complete UI framework for Alfresco, based on the JavaScript ExtJS library.
Jibe is highly configurable and embraces the re-usability of UI components, which are configured via the Alfresco XML configuration. Those components are all configured on the server side and thus
there is no need to write any JavaScript if the components are already written.

Our aim is to enable an easier UI development with Alfresco and especially in the Business Process Management (BPM) area, where our target are the developers and a rapid development process. Jibe is deployed as any Alfresco AMP and is also modular. The first release comes with the Jibe core framework and a Repository browser module.

If you are interested to test it you can get it from SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jibeframework/) and check the installation instruction on http://icodix.com/
The Alfresco repository supported in this release is the 2.2 enterprise version.

We kindly invite you to test it and to give us your feedback.

[alexr]

Hi Daniel,

What is the roadmap for Jibe in 2009? Can you give an estimate on when Jibe will be supported on Alfresco 3.x?

Kind Regards,

Alex
http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/image-wall/

[daniel_gradecak]

Hi Alex,

We are running Jibe on top of Alfresco 3.x and we will make a new release as soon as we have some time to do it. I think that it will happen somewhere end of this month or beginning of March.

Regards,
Daniel

[alexr]

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for the quick response.

Kind regards,

Alex

[daniel_gradecak]

Hi all,

jibe 2.0 is out. This time it supports community and enterprise versions as well as Alfresco2.x and 3.0.x
More info on http://jibeframework.org

Enjoy!

Kind regards,
Daniel

[alexr]

Hi Daniel.

Great. I will have a look at the new version on Alfresco 3.

Regards,

Alex

[daniel_gradecak]

We just released a release candidate of the upcoming Jibeframework 2.1

check http://jibeframework.org/index.php?title=Jibe_2.1-RC2 and http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/jibe/

[daniel_gradecak]

For those who are interested Jibe 2.1 has been released with rules and permissions management. For more info check http://jibeframework.org/index.php?title=Jibe_2.1

It seems that a lot of people do not understand that Jibe is a framework that allows building very user friendly applications on top of ExtJS and is integrated tightly with Alfresco. However, the core framework is not a final application and when installing, one should also install the Repository Browser module, which is our reference application and a fully capable and extendable Alfresco UI interface.

For a quick start check http://jibeframework.org/index.php?title=Quick_start

Daniel.

[rafaelscg]

Hi,

I have a quickly question.
Could i see TIFF images in Jibe interface on preview?
I working with Alfresco and if this is possible, i want to try implement this in my projects.

Regards
Rafael Simões

[daniel_gradecak]

Hi,

well viewing TIFF images in browsers is not that easy. Alfresco offers transformation possibilities and it is possible to transform a TIFF to PDF than to SWF for example, or if there is a tool to transform directly to SWF.

That way a tiff will be previewable. Jibe repository browser has some code that was done for previewing files, check the configuration in alfresco.module.RepoModule.ui.web-client-config-components.xml

<config evaluator="jibe" condition="component:jibePreview">
      <raw template="jibe.content.preview" />
</config>‍‍‍

the preview template is not in freemarker but is in alfresco.module.RepoModule.ui.web-client-config-template-component.xml

<template id="jibe.content.preview">
            <![CDATA[ 
               xtype : 'jibe-swf-preview-panel',
                 previewUrl:'${previewUrl}'
            ]]>
         </template>‍‍‍‍‍‍

In Jibe 2.0 and 2.1 this was not enabled and it is there just as a legacy code, which was not yet removed. Probably that we will have the previewing based on Alfresco 3 thumbnails, which was not the case previously.

If you look in the repository browser UI config files you will also find some references to an aspect:'jibereviewable', this is the key, but it is not the way it should be done on Alfresco 3.
Check also the class com.icodix.jibe.repo.beans.BrowsingBean

I hope this helps a little bit.