Re: [cosmos-dev] Dojo toolkit legal issues are gone

[David Whiteman <David_Whiteman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am guessing this makes it so you cannot
run the data visualization code if you are offline/disconnected, unless
you have a local Dojo implementation.  

On the resource modeling team, we felt
requiring the user to be online was a restrictive limitation to have on
the SML validator, so we have been bundling the schema files, even though
it has caused us some legal hassles.  E.g. I sometimes do some COSMOS
development in an offline scenario, waiting on my son at his taekwondo
practice where they do not have Wi-Fi.

David

Sheldon Lee-Loy <sleeloy@xxxxxxxxxx>
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11/28/2007 11:08 AM

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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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