Re: Are you happy with GWT?

As a team member I'm admittedly biased, but here are a few other points:

- You can share Java code between Android and the web. This doesn't make sense for UI code, but it does for business logic and maybe RPC calls (but you have to design for this).

- It's not either-or. You can call JavaScript easily through JSNI and have full access to HTML5 API's and high-quality JavaScript libraries.

- You don't have to use the standard libraries. Some of them fall under "it seemed like a good idea at the time" and there are better alternatives.

On Friday, October 5, 2012 8:53:17 AM UTC-7, Charlie Youakim wrote:

I'm deciding on whether to switch my team to GWT.  I think the biggest thing for me as the tech lead for the company is "Are you happy with your choice to use GWT?"

My reasons for thinking to switch:

-Javascript is a fast and free language, sometimes too fast and free for a large team.  Coding standards can vary from developer to developer, and maintaining architectures can be difficult
-Javascript mistakes are only caught in runtime.  The fact that GWT(Java) would catch 90+% of our simple mistakes makes me more confident that our clients won't.
-Javascript allows for rapid development, but not so rapid bug fixing.
-Strict Java coding + a strong architecture at the outset creates a great foundation to build from.  I've even seen this in my firm's Android apps.  They are very stable.

But for me, I'd really like to hear from developers active in the community.  Are you happy?  Or do you wish you went a different route?  My goal is to have my dev team work more on new projects rather than fixing old projects.  I am hoping that GWT can help with that.  thoughts?

-Charlie

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