[Building Sakai] Sakai GWT

[Aaron Zeckoski]

> 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.

As a general comment, I have found the opposite to be true (at least
in the UK and the US though it seems true for international projects
as well). It is part of the reason why OAE uses javascript for all
frontend processing (the idea was that JS developers are far more
common and that JS is easier to work with than Java). I'm not claiming
this is true, just that it was believed to be the case in general.

-AZ


2011/5/12 Remi Saias <remi.saias at hec.ca>:
> 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
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>
> -------- 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
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>
> I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it
> short. -Blaise Pascal
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