Sorry that's quite absurd: SmartGWT is often introduced to solve
performance problems, and it solves them.
SmartGWT is intentionally designed to have a one-time-ever download of
a feature rich runtime in exchange for reducing subsequent server
requests. For example, Adaptive Filtering greatly reduces the
costliest types of database hits:
http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/#grid_adaptive_filter_featured_category
.. and allows you to introduce an extremely powerful data highlighting
system with no server load at all:
http://blog.isomorphic.com/?p=234
If your application is the kind we target - complex enterprise
applications which are used repeatedly and for significant lengths of
time - this provides a gigantic performance boost, and once-ever
download of cachable JavaScript files is a negligible factor.
Look at a deployed SmartGWT application and you've got users humming
along, ripping through the interface and nothing being downloaded
anymore because it's all cached. And everyone is getting fast
responses from the database because the Smart GWT framework is
minimizing database load.
The larger your application becomes, the more these benefits accrue.
And, by the time you've built an application with comparable
functionality with core GWT or another GWT-based framework, you're
going to be downloading the same size runtime as SmartGWT anyway.
On Dec 1, 1:44 pm, aarnott <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
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