[jug-discussion] the great app smackdown ;-)

[Warner Onstine]

Last night at the after-meeting beer fest at Gentle Ben's Tim found a 
new victim for his Rich Internet App tirade, err, enlightened point of 
view (which I happen to share to a certain degree). During his 
speechifying Tim began to proclaim that Flex was the bomb and that all 
should bow before it as the new King of RIA (alright maybe those 
weren't his exact words, but you get the idea). So, being the OSS geek 
that I am I challenged him to write a Flex app and I would write the 
comparable Laszlo app so that all could see the pluses and minuses of 
both frameworks. Tim begged off citing something called lack of time, 
whatever that means.

After everyone left Duffy and I were walking back to the U and thinking 
about how this could get turned into a different format for the 
meetings. Basically pick a specific application (I proposed the Wafer 
project - http://www.waferproject.org as the basis for this) and then 
have this application written in different frameworks for a cool 
comparison and we could all see (and learn) from others' explorations.

What does everyone think of this? I would preferably like to see a 
smackdown type of meeting with two frameworks going head-to-head, but 
maybe that's just me ;-).

Since I don't know anyone else who has done any work on Flex, I thought 
a good Tapestry vs. JSF smackdown would be in order.

What does everyone think? Other smackdowns? Other applications?
-warner
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