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

[Jonathan Marsh]

Max, welcome.  In a few weeks perhaps I could come down (I'm based outside
Sacramento) and give you a demo of our approach to Service Composition as
"Mashups."

Jonathan Marsh - http://www.wso2.com - http://auburnmarshes.spaces.live.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mashup-dev-bounces at wso2.org [mailto:mashup-dev-bounces at wso2.org]
> On Behalf Of Sanjiva Weerawarana
> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:30 PM
> To: mashup-dev at wso2.org
> Subject: Re: [mashup-dev] GWT, Flex/Apollo, Google Gears, and "no IE
> for me" :-)
> 
> 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_070520
> 06.ppt
> >
> >
> > PDF here =>
> >
> http://www.maximilien.org/presentations/2006/AJAX_and_GWT_Public_070520
> 06.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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> Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
> Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
> email: sanjiva at wso2.com; cell: +94 77 787 6880; fax: +1 509 691 2000
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