September 27, 2006 at 12:02 pm
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I had a look at Google Web Toolkit today and just wanted to share my first impression. Me, as a person who really hates JavaScript, the idea of writing web pages in Java and later compiling this to html pages flavoured with JavaScript to get AJAX style of websites, sounds excellent. I had a quick look at API and examples and it looks pretty straitforward. So, if we want to create static site with cool AJAX interface it is easy. But what about more realistic use cases? I will have to investigate how easy would be using GWT with some MVC framework and of couse some back-end. Spring MVC, Spring, Hibernate + GWT? It would be a killer! But lets back to reality and my first bad impression from actually using GWT. It has different versions for Windows XP/2000 and Linux (GTK+ 2.2.1+). As a result we have different binaries and probably we cannot easily develop on different platforms. That’s one thing. Another is lack of integration with Ant. This bothers me even more.
But I will give it a chance. I created a project on Google Code Hosting for my sandbox for GWT.
I always wanted to created something what looks cool though*.
* the true is that I prefer server-side and even GWT cannot change this!
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September 27, 2006 at 9:48 am
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The last blog on secreet geek describes interesting idea of Duplicate Driven Programming. I think it was invented and used by big corporations long time ago. Unintentionally.
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September 23, 2006 at 12:28 am
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I recently came across Scott Hickey’s article in IBM DeveloperWorks comparing writing code in Java and Groovy. Simply code written in Groovy has simplified syntax comparing to what we are used to. Hence is less noisy, easier to read and understand. Isn’t it great to focus on solving a problem than on typing curly brackets all the time? What I just realized is that we are boxed by our behaviour, we are get actually used to type the brackets, for loops with index, iterator. Type, type, type… And we think that’s the way software development should look like. Thank’s to good IDEs helping us to generate that noise we are not frustrated completely yet. In Java 5 we have got already some goodies like simplified loops, autoboxing, generics. That is a good change I believe. And I don’t care that generics can have bad influence on performance (see an article on TSS). Coming back to Groovy I will try to have a look how can I incorporate it to my current development behaviour. I’ve read an article about using Groovy for unit testing of java code. Sounds promising to me.
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