Re: jquery?

On 25 October 2011 20:57, Jeff Chimene <jchimene@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 11:16 AM, Dennis Haupt wrote:
>> hi there,
>>
>> a coworker told me that jquery has a bunch of advantages over gwt and
>> that gwt offers pretty much nothing that jquery doesn't - and is going
>> to infest our source code if i can't stop him.

This is a typical first moment of a flame war. :)

> 1) There's always the port of jQuery to GWT called GQuery. It does add
> some value, and seems to work well for the limited use I've made of it.
>
> 2) GWT is much more than just widgets (as is jQuery). Does your
> co-worker know that GWT provides the benefits of type-safe code, code
> optimization, leveraging IDEs for Java?
>
> 3) jQuery is a fine library. At the end of the day, you're still writing
> and debugging pure JavaScript. As some Italians say, "I'd rather pound
> on 'it' with large rocks.
>
> 4) There's probably a happy medium here, somewhere. But, in my IMNSHO,
> if your team hasn't settled on a set of technology solutions, and
> management hasn't supported that decision, then you have other, more
> substantial issues.

I have experience at both side. In my thesis I made a small php
framework which generate jQuery source code to avoid writing
javascript. If you do something like this ever you know this is could
be a hard way. This was a hell itself for me. Debugging javascript
It's a terrible thing even you have such a good application as
firebug. I like jQuery because it's easy to use and fancy and etc,
etc, etc. But, this is only a javascript library. By the way, my job
is testing a huge website based on .NET technology and I hear every
day they cursing my developer colleagues because they have to write
javascript, html and C# code. And they have to debug it. Not to
mention the fact you can't write junit tests for javascript. In my
opinion here is the biggest advantage of gwt. You have to write only
java code! From here you have all of advantage of using only one
programming language, in this case java. For example, debugging, type
safe, OOP and not to mention the IDEs. And top of that if you use
other java technologies you have deal with only one programming
language and as a consequence you can find employers easier, for
example.

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