Re: jquery?

my $.02 would be that it all depends on what kind of project/app/
website you're building. if you want to have a true web application
where the page seldom if ever does a full refresh and you want to have
a lot of fancy and super awesome functionality, then GWT is the way to
go. i've heard that there are ways with javascript to manage your
project well, but my experience with JS is somewhat limited. i think
it's better for a large web app to be able to work one level of
abstraction higher by coding in java and taking advantage of
everything that brings.

however, if you're building what's really a website and you want to
have just a sprinkling of ajax or a little cool functionality, then by
all means go with jquery. it's much more lightweight and for simple
things, way simpler. but from what i've seen i would definitely not
want to do anything of significant size with that.

most likely building a website will be faster, but a web app has a lot
of advantages. with a web app you can push your state down into the
client and have a stateless server side which helps bigtime with
scalability. but, depending on your project there may be security
concerns around doing that.

as always, pros and cons both ways but by asking on a GWT list the
answer of which to go with is most likely going to be GWT. :)

On Oct 25, 12:53 pm, Luis Montes <monte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maintaining JS doesn't have to become a nightmare on large projects.  Other
> toolkits besides jquery have taken things like modularity,dependency
> management, and modularity into account.
>
> Write in GWT if you want to write in Java.
>

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