GWT App Panel

Dietrich Kappe, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 @ 7:52 pm

Bret Taylor formerly of Google moderating Alex Moffat (Lombardi Software, Blueprint) and Christopher Klundt of theClassConnection.

Alex was definitely doing the heavier lifting in his app. Alex's story was that they started out in Flash, abandoned that because of JavaScript/Flash integration issues in Firefox, switched to Dojo and got it to a working version which proved impossible to maintain -- hard to refactor, impossible to figure out what was calling what, hard to find developers. Then they rewrote it into GWT and found the tooling, JUnit, etc., so much easier.

"As developers, we didn't think we were stupid, but we found it incredibly difficult to develop with JavaScript." -- Alex

"We have three developers doing the work of eight JavaScript developers." -- Christopher

The best question of the session was on how to incorporate visual design, etc. into GWT development. Since assembling a UI in GWT doesn't involve the old webapp templating approach, developers have to build the UI in Java code (should sound familiar to Swing and Winform developers).

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