Hi, Since I get no response from the GWT dev-team on reported bugs I am beginning to wonder about the future of GWT. It looks like stability of the existing features is not very high on the list. I've heard excuses in all the previous release that you guys were going to sort out long-standing bugs after the next major release ... but years have passed now and the collection of open and even new issues is going in the wrong direction.
So I have to ask the obvious question: Is Google going to abandon it now that Google Wave has been axed ? The focus of 2.1 seems to be fast app development for enterprise apps, which is very good... but one of the major requirements in enterprises when selecting a toolkit is the maturity and stablity of the toolkits, how much support do you get, how fast are bugs fixed ... etc... right now I find it harder every day to sell GWT for newer projects. >From that perspective I'm not that sure that I would want to rely on the Spring-Roo and Data aware widgets. When we report bugs on other opensource projects (like struts in the past or eclipse and many others) the new bug reports are quickly detected and you get some basic feedback... right now the issue tracker seems like you guys are using the SUN bug database. There are still important bugs open from the beginning years of Java! One other remark about dogfood: How come I can not use CssResource with the standard widgets of GWT ? They all rely on primary stylename and style dependent names to switch states ... which makes it impossible to optimize the CSS with CssResource. Are we really supposed to write our own widgets ? Writing our own widgets is not too hard, but I hate it when I can not even use the most fundamental UI widgets. Again: I'm sounding very negative above, but that is just because I care about the success of GWT! I want it to succeed but it needs to grow up. David -- 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.
