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Oracle has published the code for its long-awaited open source JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) version 2.0.0. If you're interested in looking over the code at GitHub, here's what Big Red says is in the box: a full JS development toolkit, SPA template-based lifecycle management, two-way binding with a common model layer, …

  1. ellisgl

    Would be great if their site example site didn't go down.

  2. teknopaul

    I don't trust UPL

    Another OS licence specifically designed to let Oracle sell other peoples open source work.

  3. Kubla Cant

    Useful (maybe)

    On the basis of a very cursory examination it looks like it could be useful.

    The trouble is that the JavaScript world produces a new, exciting, paradigm-shifting framework every six weeks. It's impossible to judge which ones will achieve extensive uptake and which ones will just die in a corner. With Oracle behind it, JET* may be lucky, but there's no guarantee.

    This volatility is obviously bad news for someone who makes a living writing software, but it's actually worse from the perspective of people making architectural choices. Get it wrong, and in a few years you'll have a system that's unsupportable because nobody's prepared to learn the technology it uses.

    * Odd choice of name, especially from a database company. If it's as good as the late, unlamented JET database engine, it's doomed.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Attribution

    They are too lame to even mention the "collection of open source JavaScript libraries" on the Github page. Th project homepage says they are using jQuery, jQuery UI, RequireJS and Knockout (for "Advanced two-way binding with a common model layer). So judging from that I wonder what's the point of bundling all of that and stick a pretentious Oracle badge on it - apart from bundling some more APIs that "interact with Oracle products and services, especially Oracle Cloud services".

    Also, "Yeoman" is a Javascript build tool (as in "GNU Make").

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