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Google Web Toolkit

Added by Chuck Crandall, last edited by Chuck Crandall on Sep 08, 2006

Google Web Toolkit

Pros
  • Large list of widgets
    • form widgets (checkbox, combobox, listbox, etc...)
    • menu widgets (flyout menus, trees, etc...)
    • other widgets (sortable tables, tabs, dialog boxes, etc...)
  • Back button support
  • Familiarity for java developers
  • Debugging environment similar to java
  • Hand-write JS in java with JSNI
  • JavaDocs offer good documentation
Cons
  • New browser support must come from Google (currently doesn't support IE7)
  • Non-standard table-based layouts
  • Written for java 1.4 (can't use generics, annotations, etc...)
  • Security and performance issues unknown
  • Unproven technology (no existing large-scale projects)
  • Auto-generated JS difficult to debug

Differentiators

Back button support for AJAX
Robust widget library
Java skills required
Unknown, unproven
Auto-generated JS difficult to debug
Not web standards compliant

DEMO: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/examples/
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