GWT or javascript library ?
By dgirard on Monday 19 May 2008, 10:26 - Permalink
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I found myself again standing in a (familiar) crossroad... should I use a well known javascript library (e.g. yui, jquery, prototype, dojo etc') or should I take GWT.
How could we help to answer this regular question ?
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my 2 cents:
since I almost didn't wrote any javascript, web I was happy to learn GWT
but even if I had some knowledge in javascript, I should have choosen GWT because of the wonderful Eclipse. debugging, auto completion, etc, I can't live without these (crossplatform) features anymore.
also, I needed some remote services, and so writing my server and my client in java make my project consistent
I wrote some advanced JavaScript code in the past using DHTML Javascript libraries. You can have a good level of abstraction and object oriented programming using these libraries. But it is far more natural and easy to have a clean object oriented and extensible design with GWT.
And considering that GWT is a key technology at Google, I would definetly consider it for a new project.
Netbeans 6.1 is good only for game, but not for big project the memory usage is very lacking