What's next
The development of our Plex-XML framework continues to move forward. See below the next steps in a loose order. Beside the ongoing enhancement of this Wiki we have
- ...scheduled for 2011
- Upgrade from Ext 3.3 to Ext 4.0 soon after it is no longer beta.
- UPDATE 12.08.2011: Sencha Blog says: "...Ext JS 4.0 introduced a huge number of new features, but also turned out to have some performance and documentation holes and we hope that Ext JS 4.1 solves as many issues and concerns that you’ve had..." so we are going to wait for 4.1
- UPDATE 31.10.2011: Looks like results are worth waiting and we could upgrade by the end of the year: http://www.sencha.com/blog/ext-js-4-1-developer-preview/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+extblog+%28Ext+JS+Blog%29&utm_content=Bloglines#date:21:00
- Mobile-Web-Templates (optimized templates to use your existing Plex-XML-Application on Android, iPhone, iPad... without modifications)
- Sencha Touch after Ext 4.0
- Zepto.js (?) as alternative implementation for Ext
- HTML5 support
- Formate 3.0 with HTML5 support
- Plex-XML internal runtime update from DOM to streaming to gain more performance for batch jobs and large im-/exports.
Editable-Grid
Grid with Pivot-Table
WebServices integration via Apache Axis
Huge improvements in file import (CSV, XML, via FTP, via Mail, variable Import-Formats per Table...)
PanelAndChild layout
Charts
- ...scheduled for 2010
Individual end user grid setup
Editable grid
- Plex-XML smartphone adapter
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Android
Enhancements to the OpenOffice and MS Office integration
Enhancement to the Enterprise 2.0 model (rating of objects in the range from 
to
)
Anonymous user support -> no login required for functions that have been released for public use
A public-accessible sample application that was built with Plex and Plex-XML, can be accessed here: www.coupons.de
- ...scheduled for 2009
Licensing model including a free community edition and a commercial edition
Upgrade to Plex 6.1
Enhancements to the OpenOffice and MS Office integration
Upgrade to Ext JS 3.0 soon after it is no longer beta
Enhancement of the Enterprise 2.0 model (enterprise tags, spreadsheet)
- ...scheduled for 2008
Plex-XML Plex-XML Formats r2
Integration of a third party framework with desktop like UI-components continues
Smooth redesign of the first XSLT filter for a better multi-request handling
Refinement in the UI-handling of some security and administration functions like menu, roles(...), groups
- ...scheduled for 2007
Upgrade to Plex 6.0
- --> Upgrade is tested can be made every time. All technical drawbacks should be solved. But until none of our customers has switched to 6.0 we will stay with the Plex-XML group models on 5.5.
Upgrade to Prototype 1.6
- --> Done. All base XSLT's and JScript-Functions we developed are upgraded to Prototype 1.6 and Script.Aculo.Us 1.8
Menu shortcuts
First step of the integration of a open source JavaScript framework with more really great desktop
