[Building Sakai] Sakai GWT

[Remi Saias]

Adrian, Mustansar,

The affirmation that GWT won't help further down the line seems a bit 
too broad to me.

I don't want to enter into a religious fight about technology A being 
better than technology B but I think that deciding to learn and use a 
technology depends on more factors than those raised in this discussion 
(none actually, except Sakai!).

To provide a bit of information about GWT, anybody with a strong Java 
development background, especially with Swing (and probably other MVC 
frameworks) will find rather easy to develop complex UI with GWT. The 
sole fact that we don't have to worry about browser compatibility is a 
huge plus for GWT. And it works very well.

Also finding a good Javascript developer is a lot more difficult than 
finding a good Java developer, at least here, in Montreal! That might 
also influence your technological decision.

Cheers,

-- 
Rémi Saïas
Gestion des technologies de l'information - HEC Montréal
Analyste  /  ScrumMaster  -  Projet  ZoneCours 2.0/Sakai
514.340.6000  poste 2933  -  Édifice principal - RJ 221c



-------- Message original --------
Sujet: Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai GWT
De : Adrian Fish <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk>
Pour : sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Date : 2011-05-12 07:29
> Hi Mustansar,
>
> Why use GWT? Writing Java layout code and then compiling it to JS? All 
> a bit odd if you ask me.
>
> Why not just learn javascript? YAFT, CLOG, Roster2, BBB. They all use 
> javascript and the Trimpath templating engine. OAE uses JS and 
> Trimpath for client work. Do yourself a big favour and learn something 
> that'll help you further down the line.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
> On 11/05/2011 10:54, Mustansar Mehmood wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>              I have been looking for a small 'Hello World' type tool 
>> for sakai which can be used as a starting point for tool 
>> development(using google web toolkit). Sakai confluence and google 
>> searches didnt help:(
>> I am hoping if any one in sakai developer community has a something  
>> of this nature and is willing to share.
>> Thanks,
>> Mustansar
>> -- 
>> *Mustansar Mehmood*
>> Educational System Developer & Integrator
>> Informational Technology
>> Rice University
>> Houston Texas
>> Ph:(713)348 2523
>>
>> I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make 
>> it short. -Blaise Pascal
>>
>>
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