[cosmos-dev] Dojo toolkit legal issues are gone

[Sheldon Lee-Loy <sleeloy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Harm brought to my attention that AOL
has made dojo toolkit builds available on the content delivery network
(http://dojotoolkit.org/2007/11/06/dojo-1-0-0-available-aol-cdn)

I've modified the data visualization
code so that the UI references the 1.0.0 build on CDN instead of a local
copy of the dojo toolkit.  I opened bug 211240 to track this solution
(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=211240)

The following are benefits to doing
this:
- no more legal hassle since we are
no longer packaging dojo with our drivers.  Instead we are referencing
the builds on CDN
- since these builds are on a public
network clients may already have cached these scripts in their browser
- COSMOS foot print is reduced

However there are drawbacks;
- since we are referencing the toolkit
on a public network there may be performance issues
- the builds on CDN may include components
that COSMOS do not need (i.e. the builds are not optimized for COSMOS scenarios)

I've added an extension point to allow
deployers the option of specifying a public or local dojo toolkit build.

Thanks,

Sheldon
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Sheldon Lee-Loy