I have some questions about the new 2.1 release, how this compares to prior releases, and other GUI libraries. First a little background...
I've used prior versions of GWT in a couple of applications, versions 1.5 and 1.7 I believe. In both cases what we found most lacking in GWT was an extensive UI widget library so in one case Mosaic was used and in another ExtGWT. The applications are not your standard web- site application, they are more like desktop apps redesigned for the web. I see that GWT 2.1 has built-in support via Roo for very easily creating a database app that has the basic UI for seeing and editing some database tables/etc. However what if one is creating an application that is not a simple database view/edit application but rather has lots of business logic that changes what is in the UI? I.e. the UI is not driven directly by what is in the database but is driven by business logic that is driven by both the user's choices and database data? So I guess my question is how does Roo help if its not the simple use case? Regarding UI widgets, has this improved in 2.1? I can't recall exactly what I was missing but it seemed GWT's UI library was a small subset of ExtGWT for instance. However I am worried about starting a new application using ExtGWT as I suspect that is being developed in a separate track from GWT 2.1 and lots of things won't work together so I'd not be able to follow a GWT 2.1 design approach. Please let me know your experiences using 2.1 for non-trivial applications and your thoughts on using ExtGWT. Is there an extension GWT UI widget library(s) that does follow the 2.1 design approach? -- 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.
