my $.02 would be that it all depends on what kind of project/app/ website you're building. if you want to have a true web application where the page seldom if ever does a full refresh and you want to have a lot of fancy and super awesome functionality, then GWT is the way to go. i've heard that there are ways with javascript to manage your project well, but my experience with JS is somewhat limited. i think it's better for a large web app to be able to work one level of abstraction higher by coding in java and taking advantage of everything that brings.
however, if you're building what's really a website and you want to have just a sprinkling of ajax or a little cool functionality, then by all means go with jquery. it's much more lightweight and for simple things, way simpler. but from what i've seen i would definitely not want to do anything of significant size with that. most likely building a website will be faster, but a web app has a lot of advantages. with a web app you can push your state down into the client and have a stateless server side which helps bigtime with scalability. but, depending on your project there may be security concerns around doing that. as always, pros and cons both ways but by asking on a GWT list the answer of which to go with is most likely going to be GWT. :) On Oct 25, 12:53 pm, Luis Montes <[email protected]> wrote: > Maintaining JS doesn't have to become a nightmare on large projects. Other > toolkits besides jquery have taken things like modularity,dependency > management, and modularity into account. > > Write in GWT if you want to write in Java. > -- 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.
