Huzzah, it is done!

[harryh]

Check it out. We're still checking in some docs to the SVN repository, and there are undoubtedly little things to fix here and there, but GXP is now Open Sourced. There will be a blog post here tomorrow, and we're giving a talk as OSCON as well.

Comments

[modularformsboy]

While I laud the efforts to open source Google technologies -- and I totally look forward to using Protocol Buffers in future open source projects -- I think you'll have to provide some comparison/justification for the question "What makes GXP worth using? Isn't there JSP?"

[harryh]

Our slideshow of features will be up RealSoonNow but key features over JSP include:

- Markup Validation
- Automatic escaping/quoting of untrusted content (this is a bigger deal than you would think)
- GXP objects are real Java objects as opposed to wonky JSP things that don't live in the java namespace.
- I find the GXP modularization system to be superior (though this may be a personal preference)
- Multi Language support (as soon as we get tha C++ code generator working)
- Fine grained space collapsing.

[jliszka]

Automatic escaping/quoting of untrusted content (this is a bigger deal than you would think)

http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html ?

[harryh]

Exactly

[evan]

I wanted the FAQ to cover "why this system and not system [x]?"

[skamille]

Just under the gun!

[alicetiara]

Yay! Congrats!

[loic]

Congratulations! Shipping is awesome, and that looks like some cool shit to ship.

FWIW, you should put up some example code prominently. As an ADHD internet monkey I find that to be an easy way to get a sense of something.

[harryh]

I know. This is high on my list of things to do. Thx for the kick in the ass though.

The only stop gap we have for now is the test code in java/tests/com/google/gxp/functests if you were looking from some stuff to look at.