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I was writing a small hobby project (a web email frontend) and abandoned GWT for ExtJS. I got a lot more done with a lot less code. Personally, I find javascrip
by papaf 16y ago
I was writing a small hobby project (a web email frontend) and abandoned GWT for ExtJS. I got a lot more done with a lot less code. Personally, I find javascript a more powerful language than java for writing event driven applications.
The advantage of using java is access to libraries, but at the time most of the libraries I was interested in wouldn't compile into a GWT application.
- wclax04 16y agosadly the alternative I was working on was a kickass ExtJS based toolkit. We'd been building it and doing workshops for 3 months. Senior management is terrified of developers writing JavaScript... :(
- buster 16y agoInterestingly, a rather big/complex web ui was done in extJS and it looks like extJS will be abandoned for new projects, mainly due to: little control over generated html/css and big performance issues, not i18n support, no code splitting, no unit tests and some other problems that seem to be solved in GWT. I, for one, am suspicious if GWT is really the better way, basically adding anotehr layer between browser and sourcecode. My feeling points me more in the direction of jQuery, which probably doesn't do all this out of the box but many of this from plugins.