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Is GWT frontend only, or is it a full stack front and backend thing?
by cschneid 17y ago
Is GWT frontend only, or is it a full stack front and backend thing?
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- johnyzee 17y agoIt is both, as it is both a front-end development platform including a full set of widgets and an AJAX implementation that handles all the plumbing of exposing and invoking AJAX services. It doesn't tell you how to implement the back-end application though so it is not an application framework in that sense. (I don't mean to pimp, but I have previously mentioned http://www.teampostgresql.com http://www.teampostgresql.com which we develop using GWT)
- cschneid 17y agoSo it fills the same niche as cappuccino. It's a full featured javascript framework that happens to be written in a different language from javascript. But it's not like Jaxer, since it doesn't provide a server-side component built in.
- bcl 17y agoYou're contradicting yourself then. If it doesn't implement the backend then it isn't both.
- johnyzee 17y agoIt implements the unmarshalling of incoming AJAX requests on the backend. The application developer takes over from there. There is GWT code running on both the server and the client. That was what I meant in my comment.