Well I have had a differnt story. Given that the books available including E-books are scarce and the Javascript generated at times can be agonizingly slow when doing calculations and say puting up complex charts and grids with or without a backend RPC servlet. All in all its ok for what it does but there are many gotchas I have seen For one early on I noted IE 9 did not handle absolute coordinates and well and a relative panel approach appears to work well for positioning widgets. Also the supply of widgets is a bit scarce as well and Sencha can be difficult to use especially given that their samples come with far too much overhead and example code. When I want to use a widget sample I want it to be plug and chug if you know what I mean. What they prepare is very rigid structures. Also the rpc service calls can be very sluggish? Does anyone know of a a way to compress the textual data to/from the servlet?? I should mention that objects exhibit very slow response presumably from bulky exchanges of large objects or complex and large objects especially ArrayLists
On Friday, October 5, 2012 11:53:17 AM UTC-4, Charlie Youakim wrote: > I'm deciding on whether to switch my team to GWT. I think the biggest > thing for me as the tech lead for the company is "Are you happy with your > choice to use GWT?" > > My reasons for thinking to switch: > > -Javascript is a fast and free language, sometimes too fast and free for a > large team. Coding standards can vary from developer to developer, and > maintaining architectures can be difficult > -Javascript mistakes are only caught in runtime. The fact that GWT(Java) > would catch 90+% of our simple mistakes makes me more confident that our > clients won't. > -Javascript allows for rapid development, but not so rapid bug fixing. > -Strict Java coding + a strong architecture at the outset creates a great > foundation to build from. I've even seen this in my firm's Android apps. > They are very stable. > > But for me, I'd really like to hear from developers active in the > community. Are you happy? Or do you wish you went a different route? My > goal is to have my dev team work more on new projects rather than fixing > old projects. I am hoping that GWT can help with that. thoughts? > > -Charlie > -- 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/-/ej2a8oI2I5MJ. 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.
