Community Contributions for UltraLightClient ‘08
The UltraLightClient team is pleased to announce that the a first bunch of community contributions has been ported to the new UltraLightClient ‘08 release.We are planning to port all relevant contributions to UltraLightClient ‘08 during the next few weeks.
Some words on the UltraLightClient community. The community has two intentions: first of all, it is a component repository for our customers, secondly the UltraLightClient team uses it as a playground to explore new concepts related to UltraLightClient.
Let’s look at these two intentions in some more detail:
UltraLightClient community as component repository for customers
Customers can find ready to use components in the UltraLightClient community that implement a wide range of requirements. Usually these component come from real world projects where Canoo engineers were engaged either as consultants or as developers. I recommend you to have a look at the following gems in the UltraLightClient community:
| Description | Sample Link | Community Link |
| A native browser component that fully supports HTML and browser plugins (e.g. is able to play YouTube videos) | start | open |
| An interactive charts component that can display all kinds of business charts | start | open |
| A small process framework that helps you to manage and visualize background processes | start | open |
| Input support for text fields à la Google Suggest | start | open |
| An interactive map component that offers the functionality of Google Maps | start | open |
UltraLightClient community as playground to explore new concepts
The standard approach for new concepts is not to directly integrate them in the release but to explore them first in a separate project that is hosted on the community. This gives you a chance to see what the UltraLightClient team is currently working on. Successful concepts will be integrated in future versions of UltraLightClient. For example, the UltraLightClient ‘08 release integrated the following contributions from the UltraLightClient community:
- Forms: inspired by the Form Model and the Validation Components contribution
- Sortable and filterable tables: inspired by the SortedTableModel and FilteredTableModel contributions
- Easy Sevlet deployment: inspired by the Easy Deployment contribution
- Project generator: inspired by the Eclipse IDE Integration contribution
Link summary
ULC Code Community
List of migrated contributions
Canoo UltraLightClient product page
