I have worked (briefly) with both GWT and Vaadin, and I'd say Vaadin would definitely be the way to go.
Angelo On Oct 13, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Marcel Offermans wrote: > Hey all, > > Some time ago, we started work on a web based UI for ACE based on GWT. > Feature wise, GWT is great, providing a nice web UI that supports things like > drag and drop. There are two big downsides of GWT though: > > The first is that the javascript generation is rather slow, making the > development cycle when doing UI updates fairly slow. > > The second is that there is no way to modularize the GWT based UI. You always > have to compile it in one go. > > In my opinion, Vaadin [1], a toolkit built on top of GWT that is released > under the Apache Licence Version 2.0, solves both issues nicely. I'm > seriously considering moving the whole UI to it. WDYT? > > Greetings, Marcel > > [1] http://vaadin.com/ >
