MyGWT is dead. Long live Ext GWT
By dgirard on Tuesday 22 April 2008, 09:43 - Permalink
mygwt.net :
We appreciate your use of MyGWT and are excited to announce the new version of MyGWT is now Ext GWT and is available with both commercial and open source licenses. This flexiblity will help fund future enhancements and a dedicated team working on and expanding the framework.
Yes, it is pretty confusing. We have now two very good frameworks with the same name : "Ext GWT" and "GWT-Ext". Because these two frameworks are good it is certainly difficult to choose between them. Even if comparison is always a poison, here is a basic matrix (1:poor - 5:excellent):
| GWT Ext | Ext GWT | |
| Licence | LGPL | GPLv3/Commercial |
| Features | 4 | 2 |
| Forms | 4 | 2 |
| Table | 5 | 2 |
| Type | Javascript Wrapper | 100% Java |
| Version | 2.0 | 1.0beta |
| Documentation | 3 | 1 |
| Search Visibility | 3 | 1 |
| For a java developer with no javascript knowledge | 3 | 5 |
| For a java developer with basic javascript knoledge | 3 | 5 |
| For a javascript developer with basic java knowledge | 5 | 3 |
| For a javascript developer with no java knowledge | 5 | 1 |
Because Ext GWT is very young, this table will change a lot in the next few months.
I think that Ext GWT is really a bad name. It is to confusing with GWT Ext. What is your opinion ?
I propose GXT for the new name. It is used in the package name of Ext GWT (com.extjs.gxt.ui.client) :
Such a competition around GWT is a sign of healthy. Long live GWT !
Comments
Ext GWT is not LGPL/Commercial as reported by the comparison table, it is GPLv3/Commercial... and (unfortunately) this is a big difference.
Thanks, I have corrected it.
Ohh... guys, I think It's not sooo good changes...
By the way, is there old support forum available somewhere?
it looks like ext-js also converted to GPL
http://extjs.com/products/license.p...
So any future version of GWT Ext will be infected with that license.
This looks like a squeeze play against GWT Ext to me. And very lame, GPL is a poison pill for many of my clients. Good luck to those guys making a living at this, but everyone I know who was evaluating GXT is no longer doing so.
I agree with dhlbrk... GPL makes GXT and ExtJS unusable by my company too... and since they are the best widgets available in the wild this is a really bad thing for us and our customers.
By the way, I'll continue to use mygwt v.0.5.2 for a while and after that, will see...
I can share this library if somebody has not downloaded it yet.
It is the last good mygwt build.
ext 2.1 and ext gwt beta1 are NOT distributed under the GPL. I repeat they are not distributed under the GPL. If you look at the source files and the license file included with the downloadable distribution, you will see additional restrictions that are over and above the GPL. Please update your chart to reflect this.
jd, you are probably referring (as an example) to the license terms in ext GWT resources... yeah, this whole extjs/ext gwt license business is really messy and is not really GPL neither. EXT stuff is a commercial library pretending to be open source (just like M$FT's "open" source stuff). Nothing technically wrong - but yes, it is misleading. I'd probably still buy their widgets if they continue supporting them...
ExtJS is dual licensed GPLv3 and Commercial.
From what I saw there were are no restrictions on the GPLv3 on the ExtJS site.
Lastly the GPL is a "DISTRIBUTION" License. So you can use it *internally* for testing, even production. Google is famous for this. If you like it, buy a license or support.
no way.... google has to step in, release another rich JS library + gwt integration.. amen.