The book on GXT is terrible. The GXT guys stiffed Grant Slender, who was an active user, contributor and author of this book who is no longer involved with the project. You can clearly tell that the book was published prematurely with broken samples and the chapters end abruptly skipping the whole APress EAP process. The author clearly wanted out.
The GXT API's change very frequently and they break a lot of API's across minor releases. There's are other really annoying technical issues like rendering bugs with layouts and resize but when factoring the total cost of GXT, it is not *only* USD 579. The release schedule is whimsical and their upgrade from major version 1.x to 2.x was totally unjustified given the new features that it added being very minor and the short duration of the existence of version 1.x, yet they required users to pay an upgrade fee. GXT 2.0 uses the old event mechanism to look for it to break all your API's when they upgrade to the new event handling mechanism. Possibly in v3.0 which will likely have an upgrade fee. Sorry, I cannot deal with all this when we have a tight release schedule. I am no longer enamored by the shiny widgets on the Ext / GXT family. Buyer beware! On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Shawn Brown <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi, > > > the lack of > > documentation is a serious issue. > > 4) i found the ext architecture to be overly complex > > 5) I might be wrong , but Ext feels to me just like Spring, their open > > source code is just a way to drive , sales of books, trade shows , and > > support contracts. > > I went with GXT and am happy with it. The samples they provide are a > much better source for understanding the architecture that a 3rd party > book I have on it. > > Anyway, best luck to the smartGWT team! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
