Rails spinoffs - Oct 2007 - A new JavaScript Framework based on Prototype and Scriptaculous : Archetype

After several months of development, we are proud to announce you the
first public release of Archetype JavaScript Framework (License MIT,
version 0.1)!

Archetype is a JavaScript framework. It''s not a simple toolkit, but a
real framework which affects the way you code in JavaScript. Made on
top of excellent libraries as Prototype and Scriptaculous, it aims to
ease development of real "web 2.0" applications by offering a bunch of
services designed to have good quality JavaScript managed software.

Archetype offers the following services:
- Automated JavaScript loading and smart dependencies management to
avoid loading errors when working with interdependent JavaScript
files. It retrieves all your project files in a smart, easy and
efficient way to get rid of these issues.
- JavaScript object enhancement : inheritance, singleton, parent
methods call, imported methods, etc.
- A configurable logging system to compensate JavaScript miss of
logging capabilities and therefore ease debug tasks. The framework
provides different loggers, chosen by configuration, to help you
debugging your project whatever browser you choose.
- A "Smarty" flavored HTML (or any textual based file) template
system : providing a lightning fast template interpretation to get a
clean Controller-View-Model system.
- Light container : One of the powerful Archetype concept. The
container system (called Components) offers you new outlooks in
JavaScript development : embedded dependency configuration, automatic
"this" bounding for all methods, private and public methods, easy
event listening and firing, transversal code management abilities ...
get more from JavaScript by using Components !
- Re-usable widgets building: based upon Components, the
GraphicalComponent gives you a simple tool to gather all the CSS/HTML/
JS needed using all the dependencies management capabilities of the
Components and powered by the Templates System.
- Custom event communication : With Archetype, communicating through
Components is as easy as calling a natural object
method(fireSomething) and as easy as naming your listener with some
convention (onSomething). No more need for an object to keep any
reference to another one to communicate, just fire an event, listen to
it somewhere else and you''re done !

One of the main goals of Archetype is to provide developers all tools
needed to work with JavaScript as they work with server framework, but
without hiding JavaScript code in a server layer (as often provided by
server frameworks in the hype) which is often too simplistic for what
you need to do.

Archetype JavaScript Framework provides developers a real work
environment, using concepts of the best available tools on the web,
which eases use of good practices and structures without any good
structure before, which are so indispensable for quality softwares,
easy to enhance and maintain.

- Archetype Website : http://archetypejs.sf.net/ (right now it''s just
the developer blog, mostly in French but a real website will come
soon, using an Archetype based Wiki : AWiki)
- Download Archetype :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=194362
- Discuss about Archetype : http://groups.google.com/group/archetype-user
- Try this little demo and look at the code :
http://sd-10490.dedibox.fr/Archetype-0.1.0/WebContent/Slidy.html


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On Oct 25, 7:29 pm,
"florian.trave...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<florian.trave...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> After several months of development, we are proud to announce you the
> first public release of Archetype JavaScript Framework (License MIT,
> version 0.1)!
>
> Archetype is a JavaScript framework. It''s not a simple toolkit,
but a
> real framework which affects the way you code in JavaScript. Made on
> top of excellent libraries as Prototype and Scriptaculous, it aims to
> ease development of real "web 2.0" applications by offering a
bunch of
> services designed to have good quality JavaScript managed software.
[...]
> - Try this little demo and look at the code
:http://sd-10490.dedibox.fr/Archetype-0.1.0/WebContent/Slidy.html
Result in Safari is a blank page:

Value undefined (result of expression Logger.debug) is not object.
http://sd-10490.dedibox.fr/Archetype-0.1.0/WebContent/archetype.js
Line: 211

It also seems to break standard back/forward navigation.

--
Rob


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works well on my safari 3.0 (windows)

On Oct 25, 3:05 pm, RobG <rg...-AFFH1GffN5hPR4JQBCEnsQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Oct 25, 7:29 pm,
"florian.trave...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
>
> <florian.trave...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > After several months of development, we are proud to announce you the
> > first public release of Archetype JavaScript Framework (License MIT,
> > version 0.1)!
>
> > Archetype is a JavaScript framework. It''s not a simple
toolkit, but a
> > real framework which affects the way you code in JavaScript. Made on
> > top of excellent libraries as Prototype and Scriptaculous, it aims to
> > ease development of real "web 2.0" applications by offering
a bunch of
> > services designed to have good quality JavaScript managed software.
> [...]
> > - Try this little demo and look at the code
:http://sd-10490.dedibox.fr/Archetype-0.1.0/WebContent/Slidy.html
>
> Result in Safari is a blank page:
>
> Value undefined (result of expression Logger.debug) is not
object.http://sd-10490.dedibox.fr/Archetype-0.1.0/WebContent/archetype.js
> Line: 211
>
> It also seems to break standard back/forward navigation.
>
> --
> Rob

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We seem to have the same problem with Konqueror (at least Konqueror
3.x).

We don''t have access to any Safari  version lesser than 3.0
(we''re
working on Linux and Windows). Any information to help us debug this
is welcome (is there any error message in the JavaScript console ?),
thanks ! :)

We''re working on more compatibility for 0.2.0 (FF 1.5, FF 3,
Konqueror, Safari 2). Our framework uses a lot of "bleeding edge"
browser functionalities (to instantiate component and to bootstrap)
and some of them behaves a little bit differently than others (for
example .

It doesn''t "break" the standard back/forward navigation:
it''s a "one
page application" so you can''t "go back" without some
hacks (using
iframes and targets). I''m planning to integrate some good libraries to
manage this very browser specific problem (so you can do both back and
forward, and import data from url for bookmarking)

On 25 oct, 12:05, RobG <rg...-AFFH1GffN5hPR4JQBCEnsQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Oct 25, 7:29 pm,
"florian.trave...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
>
> <florian.trave...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > After several months of development, we are proud to announce you the
> > first public release of Archetype JavaScript Framework (License MIT,
> > version 0.1)!
>
> > Archetype is a JavaScript framework. It''s not a simple
toolkit, but a
> > real framework which affects the way you code in JavaScript. Made on
> > top of excellent libraries as Prototype and Scriptaculous, it aims to
> > ease development of real "web 2.0" applications by offering
a bunch of
> > services designed to have good quality JavaScript managed software.
> [...]
> > - Try this little demo and look at the code
:http://sd-10490.dedibox.fr/Archetype-0.1.0/WebContent/Slidy.html
>
> Result in Safari is a blank page:
>
> Value undefined (result of expression Logger.debug) is not
object.http://sd-10490.dedibox.fr/Archetype-0.1.0/WebContent/archetype.js
> Line: 211
>
> It also seems to break standard back/forward navigation.
>
> --
> Rob

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On Oct 25, 10:08 pm,
"florian.trave...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<florian.trave...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> We seem to have the same problem with Konqueror (at least Konqueror
> 3.x).
>
> We don''t have access to any Safari  version lesser than 3.0
(we''re
> working on Linux and Windows). Any information to help us debug this
> is welcome (is there any error message in the JavaScript console ?),
> thanks ! :)
I was using Safari 3 on Mac OS, the error message is as posted.


[...]
> > Result in Safari is a blank page:
>
> > Value undefined (result of expression Logger.debug) is not
object.http://sd-10490.dedibox.fr/Archetype-0.1.0/WebContent/archetype.js
> > Line: 211
--
Rob


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Works well under Safari 3 Windows, seems to be a bug of mac
version :/

We''ll try to have access to a mac version to debug this o_O

On 26 oct, 05:17, RobG <rg...-AFFH1GffN5hPR4JQBCEnsQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Oct 25, 10:08 pm,
"florian.trave...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
>
> <florian.trave...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > We seem to have the same problem with Konqueror (at least Konqueror
> > 3.x).
>
> > We don''t have access to any Safari  version lesser than 3.0
(we''re
> > working on Linux and Windows). Any information to help us debug this
> > is welcome (is there any error message in the JavaScript console ?),
> > thanks ! :)
>
> I was using Safari 3 on Mac OS, the error message is as posted.
>
> [...]
>
> > > Result in Safari is a blank page:
>
> > > Value undefined (result of expression Logger.debug) is not
object.http://sd-10490.dedibox.fr/Archetype-0.1.0/WebContent/archetype.js
> > > Line: 211
>
> --
> Rob

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