True enough

On 5/1/09 1:29 PM, "Nick Lesiecki" <ndlesie...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> 
>> If only I could write GWT code in Groovy then I would be in complete
>> Nirvana.
>> 
> 
> So, you'd want to write code in a dynamic language in the browser.
> Hmm. Some would say that's what Javascript is for. :)
> 
> (Just imagine. Groovy compiling to Java compiling to Javascript. VM
> optimization nightmare!)
> 
> Nick
> 
> On May 1, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Richard Hightower wrote:
> 
>> I agree with Nick.
>> 
>> GAEJ/Grails/GWT
>> 
>> I'd want GWT on the frontend and GAEJ/Grails on the backend. I would
>> use
>> JPA/JDO talking to GAEJ datastore on the backend which I could port to
>> another datastore if I needed.
>> 
>> This is very nascent and I have not deployed an real world app yet.
>> But if I
>> was working on a green field app. This would be something I would
>> consider.
>> 
>> I am working on an App that we are considering porting to GWT (it is
>> currently a SpringMVC/Ajax web app). I plan on writing a prototype
>> graphing
>> package to show what is possible with GWT.
>> 
>> I am writing a series of articles on Google App Engine for Java for
>> IBM. I
>> love the idea of it. GWT on the front end makes a lot of sense to
>> me. I
>> prefer programming in Java and like the open nature of GWT (third
>> party OS
>> components seem to abound).
>> 
>> The Groovy/Grails guy just added support for Grails running on GAEJ
>> so if I
>> could put that into the mix even better.
>> 
>> If only I could write GWT code in Groovy then I would be in complete
>> Nirvana.
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/30/09 10:52 PM, "Nick Lesiecki" <ndlesie...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> java on app engine. If I didn't want to use AppEngine, I'd still do
>>> GWT with a GWT RPC backend on the serverside. Ajax apps with RPC to
>>> the server is the *only* way to develop web applications.
>>> 
>>> Disclaimer, I didn't write GWT, and I have more than a few complaints
>>> about it. But it's architecture is the future of web app development.
>>> Period.
>>> 
>>> No comment on storage. We do things differently at Google, so I'm out
>>> of touch with "normal". We have concerns like: "is it redundant in
>>> the
>>> face of two simultaneous data center outages?"
>>> 
>>> Nick
>>> On Apr 30, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Warner Onstine wrote:
>>> 
>>>> There are Java options for this, but why go with imitators :P?
>>>> 
>>>> There's FeatherDB - http://code.google.com/p/featherdb/
>>>> Project Voldemort - http://project-voldemort.com/
>>>> 
>>>> And I'm sure others. But I'm sticking with CouchDB as I think it
>>>> has a
>>>> lot of strengths that the Java versions might not (Concurrency,
>>>> Distributable out of the box, etc.).
>>>> 
>>>> -warner
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Andrew Lenards
>>>> <andrew.lena...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I fell victim to CouchDB's April Fools joke last year:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://damienkatz.net/2008/04/couchdb_language_change.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> But it could have been two of three if that was true.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Warner Onstine <warn...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I guess that's one out of three Java :P.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -warner
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Warner Onstine
>>>>>> <warn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Grails, with Flex and CouchDB.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -warner
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Andrew Lenards
>>>>>>> <andrew.lena...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I'm curious for the opinion of the list.  If you started a
>>>>>>>> project to
>>>>>>>> build
>>>>>>>> a web application today, what would you Java technology-stack
>>>>>>>> be?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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