I completely agree. I think somethings missing though: Backed up by a corporation: Should be ticket, ASF are a corporation.
The comparison seems biased, or influenced by poor knowledge at least about wicket. Could it be that vaadin wants to sell their product :) And one thing more to add to: Widget diversity & richness You can out of the box make your components update able by ajax (without ever touching ajax) just by doing plain java. 2009/7/6 francisco treacy <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > After I tweeted a criticism about http://vaadin.com/comparison table, > some employees/supporters quickly got back to me asking to elaborate > on the problems. > > I thought it would be good to make it clear and post it to this > mailing list. Feel free to comment on my points. > > Dear Vaadin people: > > Widget diversity & richness: > - (I guess richness means Ajax-enabled components?). You put 1 star - > but there are plenty of 3rd party Ajax components for Wicket... for > instance have a look at wicketstuff.org. And by the way, "require you > to use their AJAX API to implement AJAX functionality" is simply not > true. I have created components with jQuery or Mootools where you just > drop the jar in your classpath and don't code a single line of > JavaScript. Further, you reuse the goodness of inheritance to > structure the JavaScript contributions, like <script src="..."/> > > Framework extensions are done in Java: > - You should tick it - extensions *are* done in Java > > No HTML required: > - It depends. There are components that don't have associated markup. > > No XML configuration required: > - You should tick it - no XML configuration is required whatsoever. Of > course, web.xml but... you know. > > Web-page oriented / Framework tuned for building web-pages/sites > instead of application user interfaces: > - Well, definitions here are quite blurred. But I'd say the sweet > point of Wicket is building highly-stateful application UIs. > > Commercial support & guarantees available: > - There are various companies that provide support for Wicket > > > Francisco > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
