Great posts. I am truly gracious of all the responses to this question I posted. I feel like we have made the right move going in this direction.
On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 1:28:05 PM UTC-4, Joseph Lust wrote: > > *Praise* > > I think it is best to assert that *GWT is to Javascript what Scala is to > Java*. GWT is a higher level web framework. Sure, your devs can learn > every browser quirk and go bare metal, writing verbose code. But they can > also just focus on the higher level of logic, interactions and reusability. > > Put simply, the GWT framework allows you to carry out nearly every best > practice in web application design, and do so in a robust, automated > manner. Sure, you can sprite your images, minify and obfuscate your CSS, > combine your JS files, then minimize them, then run them through the > Closure compiler, then gzip them, and repeat for each language you plan to > i18n for. Or you can just hit compile in GWT. And you can unit test that > process as well. Awesome! > > Coming from being a script kiddie in 1997, having done PHP frameworks, C# > & ASP.Net, and raw JS with ExtJs, there is no better way to create RIA’s > than GWT. I used to hate my life when I fought with debuggers in FF and raw > HTML code to get a blasted form to come up right. Now I just put a few > UiBinder XML tags in with something like gwt-bootstrap and it is done and > pretty. Life saver. Why would you do it any other way? > > And, to note what you can do with this. My employer, a large financial > institution, uses GWT as their standard inhouse technology for enterprise > web applications. One team just finished a 400 screen application and I’m > currently working on a bleeding edge, HTML5/canvas based flagship product > which is 200kLOC strong. GWT makes these applications, their rapid > turnaround, and very high level of quality possible. > > *Terms and Conditions* > > This is not for script kiddies. You should have a good grasp of OO, Java, > and JS. GWT itself is a bit dogmatic. This means it requires competent > developers. Once they read all the docs on the Google Dev pages, they’ll > be in good shape. Still, becoming a serious GWTer is not a weekend effort. > Thus, if you want to create a simple blog, stick with PHP and WP, but if > you want a highly optimized, complex web application, go with GWT. > > Sincerely, > > Joseph > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/hfpZKpjj1-8J. 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.
