GWT - first impression
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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