[mashup-dev] GWT, Flex/Apollo, Google Gears, and "no IE for me" :-)

[E. Michael Maximilien]

> Another suggestion from me is that if there are any plans of serious
> Ajax development for this tool, this would be the right time to  
> adapt a
> framework like GWT or Flex. Both are opensource (well flex is not but
> there is a very good chance that it'll be opensource soon) and I've
> played with GWT  a bit and has a very good impression about it. I've
> been told that flex is also very good.

I would agree that if you go the Java/JS route you should carefully  
look at GWT.  I have used it extensively when it was first released  
(and was not fully OSS) and even at that time it was impressive.

See following for a quick overview.  Somewhat dated but relevant.

PPT here => http://www.maximilien.org/presentations/2006/ 
AJAX_and_GWT_Public_07052006.ppt

PDF here => http://www.maximilien.org/presentations/2006/ 
AJAX_and_GWT_Public_07052006.pdf

I no longer do Java/GWT but I am sure GWT got WAY BETTER now.  Though  
can't say the same about Java...

Anyhow, worth a look as per Ajith's comments and some other reasons...

I am less convinced of Flex/Apollo, especially with Google Gears now  
and other alternatives.  However, if you want to do fancy anim or  
cool presentation, Flex/Apollo may be the best choice.

> The page is at http://wso2.org/repos/wso2/people/jonathan/mashup- 
> editor.html
> (Sorry, IE only at this point since it's a mix of Javascript, HTML,  
> XML,
> XSLT, and XPath - a useful integrated environment only available in  
> IE).

So no IE for me...  thus cannot look at this, but it would be  
interesting since could be complementary to some work here.

(We will work to make our stuff OSS so, hope you guys don't mind me  
joining this forum)

Best,

max