Hi all,
I have my back end on the Google app engine. Now I need a RIA on top of it. What should be my option? Smart GWT? Ext GWT? or Vaadin?
or if any of you know any other RIA UI tecnology other than JSF and Flex, pls let me know.
Thanks
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A:
Or maybe just plain GWT. Or maybe just HTML ;-) What are your needs? What does your application do?
Thomas
2010-09-10 20:08:08
A:
I have been using plain GWT and I like very much the flexibility and the performance. On the other side, I miss a bit of organization of the information. Much of the topics are covered in scattered post in several forums and a lot of hacking is needed. IMHO there is not a clear concept to where this framework is going, and for what use.
On the other side, Vaadin , which I have tested, has very interesting features, works very well righ out of the box, and is free, but the supporting community is much smaller.
Flex looks very oriented to content display, while GWT, and its heirs (SmartGWT, Vaadin, ..) seems to preval for business-like applications.
Clark Ku
2010-09-12 19:26:06
We try to provide the best possible community support for Vaadin, and we currently have ~40 Vaadin Ltd employees (all programmers) reading and answering questions on our forum. Have you ran into any questions on the forum that did not get quickly resolved?
hezamu
2010-09-27 11:41:13
Didn't want to misvaluate your good work. The fact is that a lot of beginner questions are self-answered in the Vaadin forum. But the truth is that GWT community is larger, compare number of results for any google search related to any of the frameworks.
Clark Ku
2010-09-27 17:14:35