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

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Max, welcome to this list! Let me do a quick intro .. Max is at IBM 
Research in Almaden and is working on some mashup stuff. Ajith is 
interning with him this summer.

Max please do send a note indicating what you're doing (whatever you can 
make public at this point).

Thanks,

Sanjiva.

E. Michael Maximilien wrote:
>> 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
> 
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