That really depends on what you're trying to do. If you want to build a multimedia website that's going to have a lot of video streaming and audio, then you're better off with Flex. However, if you want a snappy and clean web application, you're better off with GWT. I haven't been particularly impressed with the performance of Flex websites. Even large websites like http://parleys.com are slow on my brand new MBP on a 1 MB/s connection. And while Flex is the perfect candidate for Parleys, I definitely wouldn't want web applications I'm working on to be that slow.
-- Arthur Kalmenson On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM, j2ee_nyc <success...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Flex is a bit of an anomally, it's not Javascript really, but it's not >> Java based either. When it comes down to what the choice is it's >> simple: is it valuable to your development process to have a second >> language stack in your solution? If your server side is Java, your >> client side is either Javascript or Flex (is it still called >> Actionscript, it's been a while). Or you write your server in Java >> AND your client in Java, and allow your compiler to optimize the >> client code to it's application container...that's what GWT does. >> Plain and simple. > > I think the main issue with any framework that "generates" JavaScript > is that it remains a JavaScript solution behind the scenes. Therefore, > it retains the limitations of JavaScript and some issue with browser > compatibility. Seems that Flex tries to accomplish something similar > to Java Applets by providing a solution that works from within a > plugin (Flash). Logically, that seems to give Flex a much more power > UI that can potentially perform and work better than any JavaScript > solution. So, that would be my question: are Flex developers so > excited because the "hype" of cute UI, or because they believe that > Flex is a better long term solution than any JavaScript based > solution, be that GWT, Dojo, JQuery, etc.? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
