Re: GWT Special Features compared to other Frameworks

2011-01-19 Thread Didier Durand
Hi, 1 point related to your point 1: java means compilation, i.e strong type checking at compile time (even at write time if you use Eclipse that compiles in real-time). The difference in productivity is huge 1 point related to your point 3: you can not only integrates runtime frameworks but

Re: GWT Special Features compared to other Frameworks

2011-01-19 Thread jhulford
On Jan 18, 3:26 pm, Noor baken...@gmail.com wrote: 2. The developer does not have to be a guru in browser incompatibilities to develop web sites which works on a variety of browsers because incompatibilities are handled by GWT through differed bindind While GWT does shield you from some

Re: GWT Special Features compared to other Frameworks

2011-01-19 Thread Jeff Schwartz
+1. Your raise excellent points. Anyone approaching GWT with the idea that they don't need to have at least a basic understanding of HTML, CSS and Javascript is going to be very disappointed. As great as GWT is, and it is great, it cannot always hide the fact that you are developing for the

GWT Special Features compared to other Frameworks

2011-01-18 Thread Noor
Hi, I am on searching special features of GWT which are present only in GWT and not in other web framework. I am a student and I am not well acquainted to the many web frameworks on the market, so if u can help me increasing my list of special GWT features, it would be a great help. Some which i

Re: GWT Special Features compared to other Frameworks

2011-01-18 Thread Ryan Mehregan
I am afraid your first point is not a correct assessment. Programming the Web is a very broad category which encompasses a plethora of Java Web Frameworks that emerged over the past decade many of them now obsolete. Like many of them MVC frameworks(Struts, WebWork, Tapestry, SpringMVC/ WebFlow,

Re: GWT Special Features compared to other Frameworks

2011-01-18 Thread Ryan Mehregan
I do not think Collaborative Working is a feature or benefit of using GWT. There are many tools that facilitate collaborative work, including discussion groups, distributed version control systems, google docs, instant messaging programs, or many project and team management web applications that

Re: GWT Special Features compared to other Frameworks

2011-01-18 Thread Ryan Mehregan
I am afraid your first point is not a correct assessment. Programming the Web is a very broad category which encompasses a plethora of Java Web Frameworks that emerged over the past decade many of them now obsolete. Like many of the MVC frameworks (Struts, WebWork, Tapestry, SpringMVC/WebFlow,