First, no matter what flames show up, awesome response, I really appreciate the "perspective" rather than just an answer. Second, regarding your housing comparison I whole-heartedly agree. IMHO one of the biggest issues with learning CF/Flex was the effort to offer pre-fab solutions. "Thank you for the tutorial showing which wizard buttons to push but . . . ". (Although in fairness to Adobe their mission really is only to provide tools to help web designers "get the job done efficiently").
That said, back to my web application ambitions, even if Google hasn't got it yet, for what I have spent the last 10 years working at, the concept of GAE is so very enticing. Whilst I don't want to throw away my elegant relational database modellling, if I can avoid the server hardware, bandwidth scalability etc AND get increased performance then my master plan of "if I only get 1% of the Chinese market and then they each tell two friends . . . ." has a chance. Otherwise for every hour I spend on the front end it seems I have two or more on the backend. I however don't understand your comment PHP is cheaper -- unless you are referring to hosted solutions. Similarly "If you have Java available on the server" -- I thought was a standard. Regardless, GWT's claim to (I think) enable one "class" to perpetuate through the app makes it a winner. Again it might be my lack of understanding but it took me a LOONG time to understand what the hell was going on when various Adobe tutorials had apps building a class for the front end, mapping that to a class on the CF server and then in some cases mapping that to a class on the Java/db layer. Please correct me if I am off-track and/or other "color commentary" is much sought . . . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
