I've found Smart GWT to have rather poor performance and it comes at the added cost of massive javascript libraries (even when they are gzipped). If you are anything like me, you will probably find that you lose time in the long run by going with Smart GWT because you will want to get rid of it later to boost performance.
Another issue is that it does not play nicely with existing GWT widgets. There were many sizing related hacks that I needed to put in my code just to get Smart GWT to work within some GWT-based Widgets I made earlier. If you are starting from scratch, it probably won't be a problem. On the other hand, it does offer a lot of functionality and the developers have been very responsive for fixing minor bugs I discovered. YMMV, of course. On Dec 1, 3:59 pm, nino ekambi <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the EXT-GWT versions are pretty backward compatible(atleast those > we use) With version 3 they probably will break a lot but let s wait and > see. > Dont get me wrong i m not trying to put GXT on top of Smart GWT. But for > the type of products that we develop (targeting AIR runtime) Smart GWT does > not fit well because smart gwt can not run inside AIR. At least in the > application sandbox. It was more easy for me to make GXT work inside AIR > then Smart GWT. Now that i do have more time i ll take a closer look at > Smart GWT inside AIR. Since our customers dont want to pay a Designer to > custom the gwt widgets we hav to go the GXT-way. Maybe some can start a > project on creating some good themes for GWT ? i m willing to contribuate :) > > Regards, > > Alain > > 2010/12/1 Travis Camechis <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > this is true. > > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ivan Chappel <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> You do realize that with every release Ext-GWT essentially creates a new > >> product breaking all previous API's. If they're trying to get closer to > >> GWT, > >> then why not use GWT itself. Why pay for a product when you can use GWT for > >> free. By the time they plan on a release, there will be little or no value > >> it adds over "core" GWT. > > >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM, nino ekambi <[email protected] > >> > wrote: > > >>> It looks like sencha is planing to go the GWT way in the version 3 of > >>> their library > >>>http://www.slideshare.net/darrellmeyer/ext-gwt-30 > > >>> 2010/12/1 Travis Camechis <[email protected]> > > >>> To me the worst part about the third party frameworks is that the widgets > >>>> can get slow and clunky or they don't follow the GWT ways making it hard > >>>> to > >>>> implement MVP. > > >>>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Baloe <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>>> Hi all, > > >>>>> I wonder, is there anyone using Smart GWT? Or, any other (Sencha) > >>>>> product? We are struggling with the poor widgets included with GWT and > >>>>> it looks like my boss is not going to accept to spend more time on how > >>>>> to get these GWT widgets into place. 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