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I want to port a standalone application to web based which run within browser. Since there are extensive windowing, I plan to use

http://www.extjs.com/

May I know besides the web GUI framework I mention above, is there any alternative? Preferable free and open source.

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SproutCore - http://www.sproutcore.com/

Cappuccino - http://cappuccino.org/

Dave DeLong
One good thing to note is that sproutcore is targeted at HTML 5 and modern browsers, while cappuccino is much more compatible (it even works on IE6!). Cappuccino is going to have an app called Atlas very soon that makes layout a breeze, and sproutcore will eventually have one as well.
Blacktiger
+1  A: 

Check out Cappuccino and jQuery. Of course, there are tons of other Javascript GUI frameworks to choose from, as well.

Evan Kroske
+1  A: 

Top 10 Javascript frameworks. Personally, I like GWT a lot.

jldupont
OK. I like the Top 10 list. The information is helpful.
Yan Cheng CHEOK
+1  A: 

If you are porting from a Java app, Google's Web Toolkit might be the best fidelity match.

Benjamin Cox
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I've used the Yahoo UI library in the past, but I find it can be a bit slow on the browser side of things.

You may also want to look at script.aculo.us and Dojo.

Alan S