Philip once mentioned Google Web Toolkit. It seems a new type of web
application development framework is emerging.
This article compares GWT to Echo2
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=40804
I think the term "stateful web" describes this types of framework pretty
well. I came across this term several months ago, but cannot find a
reference now.
GWT and Echo2 represent more radical changes. They go well beyond AJAX,
because a developer does not have to worry about which application state
is kept on server, which state on the client side, and how the states
are restored/combined/merged during request processing.
Other approaches are more conservative, such as Atlas which adds AJAX
capabilities to ASP.NET. There are similar attempts on the Java side as
well, such as Sun's AJAX enabled components in Java Studio Creator 2 for
Java Server Faces.
It's a whole new world for our Hackystat interface.
Cheers,
Cedric
