On 10/03/2010, at 11:33 PM, Ean Schuessler wrote: > ----- "Scott Gray" wrote: >> I'm not sure about Google Maps but gmail doesn't use GWT. > > That's weird. If you google "gwt" the summary record in the google results > says " Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX > applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers". Looking > further, however, I see several other people saying definitively that Gmail > is not GWT. The GWT page says some definitive things about what *is* written > in GWT (Wave, AdWords) but not so much about what is *not*. Google should do > something about that nasty disinformation. > > I also have genuinely used and experienced the portability of GWT and it is > quite real. I know I also saw an interview with the Rasmussen Brothers where > they went off about how much porting effort GWT saved them on Google Wave and > they were the guys who wrote Google Maps. I'm now curious to read a straight > answer on where Google is actually using it.
Just to clarify I don't know anywhere near enough about GWT to make a comment, except to say that when I had to do some work on opentaps it took forever to compile and I regularly got the "A script in this page is taking a long time to load, would you like to abort?" warning from the browser. I didn't actually deal with any GWT code. As always there are a million great libraries but until some analysis is done we'll never find the one that might remove the UI framework burden from OFBiz. For example, I think Apache Cocoon has some interesting ideas but I wouldn't start a thread about it until I could justify why it might be a good fit for what OFBiz needs (not criticizing anyone who does that, it's just seems to never come to anything). Regards Scott
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