On 10/25/2011 11:16 AM, Dennis Haupt wrote: > hi there, > > a coworker told me that jquery has a bunch of advantages over gwt and > that gwt offers pretty much nothing that jquery doesn't - and is going > to infest our source code if i can't stop him.
1) There's always the port of jQuery to GWT called GQuery. It does add some value, and seems to work well for the limited use I've made of it. 2) GWT is much more than just widgets (as is jQuery). Does your co-worker know that GWT provides the benefits of type-safe code, code optimization, leveraging IDEs for Java? 3) jQuery is a fine library. At the end of the day, you're still writing and debugging pure JavaScript. As some Italians say, "I'd rather pound on 'it' with large rocks. 4) There's probably a happy medium here, somewhere. But, in my IMNSHO, if your team hasn't settled on a set of technology solutions, and management hasn't supported that decision, then you have other, more substantial issues. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
