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Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit?

Posted by kdawson on from the seemed-like-a-good-idea dept.

eldavojohn writes "After seeing some applications from Google and participating in the Google Codejam (which seems to be built using the GWT), I kind of expected to see websites spring up left and right based off the GWT. Well, it's been a year and a half since they open sourced it and I have to admit that I am more than a little disappointed by its low profile in the UI community. I've been trolling their blog and have seen a few books out on it. But the one thing I'm not seeing is its use outside of Google. I've worked through the examples and tutorials at home and though I've been impressed with the speed, I am disturbed by the actual result — a whole ton of generated Javascript. But this is the first UI technology I've found where I can write in the native language of the server (Java) to generate and unit-test the UI code. Aside from Google's use and the games of Ryan Dewsbury like KDice & GPokr, does anyone know of major sites using the GWT? If you don't and you've used it yourself, why isn't it taking off? Is it too immature? Is it a solution to a problem that already has too many solutions? Is it fundamentally lacking in some way?"

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  1. Yes, it IS fundamentally flawed... by JeremyALogan · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Is it fundamentally lacking in some way?"

    Of course it is... IT'S JAVA!

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    Jeremy Logan's Website.
  2. Re:Why are you expecting this? by Viol8 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes , feel free to tell it to Banks , a lot of whom write server side in C/C++, perl & python. I know , I've worked in enough of them.

  3. Re:Why are you expecting this? by Viol8 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes its used , but not everywhere, and not even always in the join-the-dots parts. For example its still easier to write apache plugin modules in straight C.

  4. Re:Why are you expecting this? by Viol8 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh here we go , anyone who says anything about java thats not 100% pro is a "zealot" or biased or some other epithet chucked over the wall by one of the sad fanboys. You might want to look into the mirror pal and examine what *you* are.

  5. Re:Why are you expecting this? by madpilotproductions · · Score: 0, Troll

    And for the records: no, my HTML knowledge is mediocre, my CSS is minimal and my JS is non existent ... I do not plan to learn JS and "browsers as platforms" as long as I can use stuff like GWT.

    (I have written about 850k -900k lines of C++ code myself ... just as a hint of my experience .. never counted my Java code but I work with Java sine 1998)

    So you aren't a web developer then are you?