-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 i' not interested in a flamewar like this, there are much better topics (religion a vs religion b)
just wanted to gather some intel. Am 25.10.2011 21:15, schrieb András Csányi: > On 25 October 2011 20:57, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/25/2011 11:16 AM, Dennis Haupt wrote: >>> hi there, >>> >>> a coworker told me that jquery has a bunch of advantages over >>> gwt and that gwt offers pretty much nothing that jquery doesn't >>> - and is going to infest our source code if i can't stop him. > > This is a typical first moment of a flame war. :) > >> 1) There's always the port of jQuery to GWT called GQuery. It >> does add some value, and seems to work well for the limited use >> I've made of it. >> >> 2) GWT is much more than just widgets (as is jQuery). Does your >> co-worker know that GWT provides the benefits of type-safe code, >> code optimization, leveraging IDEs for Java? >> >> 3) jQuery is a fine library. At the end of the day, you're still >> writing and debugging pure JavaScript. As some Italians say, "I'd >> rather pound on 'it' with large rocks. >> >> 4) There's probably a happy medium here, somewhere. But, in my >> IMNSHO, if your team hasn't settled on a set of technology >> solutions, and management hasn't supported that decision, then >> you have other, more substantial issues. > > I have experience at both side. In my thesis I made a small php > framework which generate jQuery source code to avoid writing > javascript. If you do something like this ever you know this is > could be a hard way. This was a hell itself for me. Debugging > javascript It's a terrible thing even you have such a good > application as firebug. I like jQuery because it's easy to use and > fancy and etc, etc, etc. But, this is only a javascript library. By > the way, my job is testing a huge website based on .NET technology > and I hear every day they cursing my developer colleagues because > they have to write javascript, html and C# code. And they have to > debug it. Not to mention the fact you can't write junit tests for > javascript. In my opinion here is the biggest advantage of gwt. You > have to write only java code! From here you have all of advantage > of using only one programming language, in this case java. For > example, debugging, type safe, OOP and not to mention the IDEs. And > top of that if you use other java technologies you have deal with > only one programming language and as a consequence you can find > employers easier, for example. > - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOpxFFAAoJENRtux+h35aGQz8P/0VXdUkfpsx+C1IaJuUc4Spq ke5saoznTWQDai8KljPWohqXtjL34duJv4dRFEVvjccqWCCAE9uH3rdzod/gNrh7 +PHeHglYscRy1+Qyz3b7x3KQSIDC8Cr5fKq/drV24mWpbVUejfpCjVT+Q83Z7Qt+ snMDRTdchWNZJDbpNNDvEKDcHFQvK2sE6NpZed46cRNpuzG65yx1AHc4EA3aqAIe ktbIdmZ4eQsas1+8nHJVz1V0/EK9Btd9otdAFdoUnzOP+tfN/R17smFOk99XKTIc BEujNpFXZRPGv3wTgtuqs81x5FIo22qOmFMZZhhNRjH08dMVP+CoDPLzU/lL4X+O gth/dXZt8j23dy/ZR9DUm7aiCJMwMDUUKD8jDmh8/ivwz75PX0iLvlV8d98bDRMB lLZYPhfZIRNuBzo0RvZkRrcnaIXrIOTi4pr9WWUUK3vppC3d7T2X2sgUjl8gMJ+w 6kuPTx4mtSHFZuvqcOjuVUVq4iIUeHK7uEttSdRH2RfjTxwYiL+SBp8FSqjMWL4h S6VbJ/ZIlRaJYndZbA5IZRUNIR7V/h8Vp5lwsysCIGWfvrBEYNzoCdZxMyNTw8os yABfo2tIsSCYLEpZAlzeTCd7TjSLMlmFBsR+8l6Bn4Bv4BPXXTq59gd0G3DQPUUz wIBF/roe/nfsfzgT9rE9 =9UAA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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.
