Description

From Jibeframework

Jibe is a complete UI framework based on the javascript ExtJS library. It is tight to the Alfresco configuration and each UI component is configured on the server side and thus is easily reusable. A lot of components are already implemented and some of them can be seen in the demos available here. However, one could add very quickly new components or layouts as there are a lot of 'cut' points' on which it is possible to attach any behavior or interaction with other systems.

Jibe's architecture was thought the way to easy the developer's work and to allow the developer to concentrate on the real problem and not to play around with javascripts anymore. Although, if new components are needed than for sure you have to write some javascript, but at least the need is minimum as there are existing components which are used the most in the business world, like panels, tabs, grids, labels, combo boxes, date pickers, tree lists and a few others.

Jibe is an addon to the Alfresco platform and we consider it as a UI framework for Alfresco, which is not yet replacing the complete Alfresco feature set but it is not said it will not. Alfresco is also working on some new UIs but they do not target the same market and the same level of integration. Jibe's components are all linked by events and thus it is easy to catch an event on one component and to update or to act on any other component.