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Thursday 4 September 2008

GWT AIR : new opensource project for integration

By dgirard on Thursday 4 September 2008, 15:10 - GWT Library

Pierre Mage :

With Google Chrome release, Didier Girard announces on onGWT : "the browser is the platform".

But the platform is not dead yet. For instance, GWT in the AIR just released its Milestone 1 version. A quick reminder: the aim of this project is to allow the development of AIR applications, i.e. desktop applications running on top of the Adobe AIR runtime, from GWT code.

GWT in the AIR makes the Adobe AIR API available for GWT using JSNI. This project also provides tools to ease "GWT in Adobe AIR" development includint test tools. The weakness of this project is its lack of documentation but it seems to be progressing. For the moment, the showcase and Adobe AIR documentation should be your starting points.

Tuesday 18 March 2008

Web Frameworks of the Future: Flex, GWT, Grails and Rails

By dgirard on Tuesday 18 March 2008, 08:36 - Conference

image Matt Raible

What if the choices in web framework was reduced to 4? If RIA are the way of the future, it's possible that these 4 frameworks are the best choices for this development paradigm. This session will explore these frameworks, as well as entertain many other's opinions on the future of web development.

Proposal accepted for OSCON 2008

Monday 25 February 2008

AIR 1.0 released

By dgirard on Monday 25 February 2008, 11:08 - GWT News

adobe.com :

imageThe new Adobe AIR runtime enables Ajax developers to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy on the desktop. AIR applications run across operating systems on the WebKit HTML engine and are easily delivered using a single installer file. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use their existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web.

I think it is possible to run a GWT application on the AIR runtime. I would be interested to know anyone's experience in implementing it.

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/develop/ajax/

Monday 4 February 2008

GWT vs Adobe Flex and OpenLaszlo

By dgirard on Monday 4 February 2008, 08:29 - GWT versus ...

image Kevin Whinnery :
GWT Report Card:
  • Language Syntax: B-
  • Development Process:B+
  • Widgets/Features/Power of Toolkit: B
  • Ease of Deployment: C
  • Server-Side Data Integration: A
  • Client-Side Performance: A-
  • Platform Flexibility: B+

GWT has a lot of very cool, fascinating features that I have only begun to scratch the surface of. Generally speaking, if you like Java and your server back end is going to be Java, then GWT is almost certainly the way to go for you.

Three RIA Platforms Compared: Adobe Flex, Google Web Toolkit, and OpenLaszlo

Tuesday 23 October 2007

Flex vs GWT vs Echo2

By dgirard on Tuesday 23 October 2007, 17:01 - GWT versus ...

JayV

Past 2 weeks I needed to investigate the best framework to port the front-end of a Java/Swing framework to a rich web UI environment.
The contenders:

  • Adobe Flex2
  • GWT (Google Web Toolkit)
  • NextApp Echo2

Flex vs GWT vs Echo2