GWT - Thin or Fat Client

2010-12-29 Thread Ross McKinnon
Hi all, Quick question... Does GWT incorporate a Fat or Thin Client-Server Architecture? Or does it depend on the application itself. My view is that it is a form of hybrid as it pushes all of the client stuff out to the client and does the heavy computational stuff on the server. Whats

Re: GWT - Thin or Fat Client

2010-12-29 Thread Ian Bambury
Well, you can do the computational stuff on the server, but there is little point if all the data is available (or can be made available) on the client. I think I would go for the term 'obese client' :-) Ian On 29 December 2010 16:05, Ross McKinnon r.mckinno...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi all,

Re: GWT - Thin or Fat Client

2010-12-29 Thread Ben Imp
I haven't seen anything in GWT that would predispose it to being either kind of client. Similar to Java or other more traditional development languages, you can make it as fat or thin as you want. I might put forth the idea that since JavaScript isn't exactly great at crunching bits, it does

Re: GWT - Thin or Fat Client

2010-12-29 Thread Jeff Schwartz
If you exclude MVP from this conversation then it would be quite correct to think of GWT more as a library than a framework and with that being the case it doesn't impose either fat or thin client architecture; it is what you make it to be. Personally, I'd use a fat client when dealing with App