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Yes, I use it a lot. It is perfectly possible to make close-to-native web frontends in GWT. There are very many other benefits which depend entirely on how you
by tezza 17y ago
Yes, I use it a lot. It is perfectly possible to make close-to-native web frontends in GWT.
There are very many other benefits which depend entirely on how you work as a coder
GWT suits if you work with Java, code in Eclipse, build with ant, use servlets and web development is just the GUI aspect to you.
There are some very sophisticated widget sets like GXT which are written in GWT and compile small to a single JS file :: http://www.extjs.com/products/gxt/ http://www.extjs.com/products/gxt/
- hello_moto 17y agoWord of advise: stay away as much as possible from GXT unless if you're working on an internal enterprise app that requires no modification in the UI. At my office, we've been trying super hard to remove all GXT widgets...
- tezza 17y agoI have done a lot of modification to my GXT widgets :: with a comparable amount of pain I've had with normal widget sets like Swing and SWT There is definitely room for improvement with GXT. Event handling sucks (different handlers for different widget types WTF!!), and maybe your usecase exposes some pathologies I've been immune from. YMMV, but thanks for the tip hello_moto!