Hello all, A little background... I'm mostly new to web frontend development, I come from a mostly backend and desktop background. I have a GAEj app that provides the backend for a rather sophisticated desktop/mobile app. This backend will also drive a website in addition to the desktop/mobile app.
The website will show a small subset of the data in the system. I started with GWT, but it doesn't seem to be quite right. The website is for presentation of a small subset of the system's data only, and users do not interact with the data in any way other than searching for it. As the data is mostly unstructured text and some images, I feel most comfortable formatting it with plain old html/css. In fact, the layout of the site will be minimal and look a lot like a blog. As such, the website should certainly not feel like a single-page "web application" a la gmail. With GWT, I have little use for widgets and find myself constantly fighting with it to get a non-application look- and-feel. The only functionality that I thus really need from GWT is the RPC component, the page should be AJAX, I don't want to do round trips to the server for every navigation event. So, I'm not quite sure which framework to use with the GAEj backend. At first GWT seemed like a natural fit, but now seems like overkill. I'm doing some research on jquery, but I haven't seen a list of "frontend frameworks that play well on GAEj" anywhere. Thanks for any advice, Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
