I think imho that air provides more functionality then prism when it comes to desktop integration. AIR provides some desktop-like functionality like local file access, SQL storage, communication with other programms on the users machine etc.
As a result, AIR supports web apps that can be used offline and Prism does not Prism resembles bookmarks more than anything else. Except that the bookmark is an icon on your computer and when you click on it, the browser doesn’t have any toolbars. For me Prism provides nothing more than what any web browser provides. And like i said i m not trying to convince people to use AIR instead of any other runtime out there.It comes down to your requirements. We had customers who wanted to be able to work offline, generate pdf or excel even when offline, export/import files to/from others tools. Those are the things we could not do with Prism. Silverlight may have been an option but we allready had a huge code base in GWT and were not willing to rewrite everything. We decided to go with AIR and it was good for us. And for those out there wo hav the same requirements gwt4air can be a good help. Greets, Alain 2010/11/1 rakesh wagh <[email protected]> > How would it be different from using say Mozilla Prism? Prism does not > require anything special. > > Rakesh Wagh > > On Oct 31, 4:30 pm, nino ekambi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello community, > > It s been a long way but i m proud to annouce the release of Gwt4Air 1.0 > > Gwt4Air will give you the the ability to turn your GWT apps in to > desktop > > apps using adobe air. > > > > You can download the jar herehttp://code.google.com/p/gwt4air/. > > The first release is compatible with gxt 2.2, gwt 2.0 and adobe air 2. It > > includes the following features: > > > > 1) Access to the core AIR APi from GWT, you basically can do anything > you > > would do in actionscript or javascript. > > 2) An adapter to make GXT(Ext-GWT) works inside the air application > sandbox > > 3) A pdf module to read and write pdf files. > > 4) A google maps module, so you can produce maps even when your web > client > > is offline > > 5) An adapter to male RPC and RequestBuilder calls possible with AIR. > > 6) A sample app with source code that shows some examples. One of the > > example is how you can export an GXT chart to pdf using gwt4air. > > > > The next releases will add more and more features(check out the roadmap) > > To get started you can check out the wiki page. > > > > I hope you guys are going to like this and provide some good feedbacks. > > For any question please feel free to contact me. > > > > best regards, > > > > Alain > > -- > 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]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- 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.
