What's driving the requirements? Are you building a consumer app with a clear vision of what the user experience should be? Top down. Or are you starting with an API and trying to figure out how to sanely present that to an audience? Bottom up.
It sounds like your ZoeOS was the later and consumer products built on GAE would likely be the former. Jeff On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Paul Meehan <paulm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm embarking on a fairly large scale and ambitious GAE app using JDO and > GWT(UI). My previous entrepreneurial spirit led me to develop ZoeOS, a > desktop Java/Swing based front-end and management tool for E-MU E4 hardware > digital samplers (http://www.zuonics.com) . I designed that product from the > bottom up i.e worked on the remoting layers first, then designed a > database/cache layer. From there I developed the business logic and finally > the Swing GUI evolved from there. > > My question is this: > > For a web app based in GAE, should I follow the same approach, working from > bottom up, and develop a domain model first? Or should I design a UI in GWT > first and work downwards from that UI specification? > > Any input appreciated. > > thanks > Paul C. Meehan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
