Hi... I am also interested in questions below... Anyone with experience on larger project...
with br KK On Dec 9 2010, 8:50 pm, dhoffer <dhoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
