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GWT vs YUI vs EXT-JS?

By Juan Cortez - May. 23, 2008

Does anyone have any experience with these 3 frameworks? They all sound very interesting and we will be starting the formal evaluation process and your thoughts would be very much appreciated.

Thank You,

Juan


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  1. By Mia Nagata on May. 23, 2008

    All three are great for user interfaces. I'm sure you can create equally good UI's with any.


    GWT however is in a different category. Although it does do Ajaxy user interfaces it is more than just a user interface library. It aims to provide many tools to bring real software engineering to Ajax applications. I think it accomplishes this well.


    If I were to draw a sketch it would simply be three columns, one for each technology. Each would have a box in their column for user interface. GWT would have additional boxes for:

    - server interoperation (HTTP, XML, JSON, GWT RPC)

    - internationalization

    - code obfuscation

    - code optimization

    - automatically cross browser (even the code you write)

    - unit testing

    - eclipse (or any Java IDE)

    - modularization and java organization/OOP

    - easy application versioning

    - performance (image bundles, caching considerations)

    - code generation


    There's quite a bit. Also the GWT engineers are great and constantly working on improving the compiler which means your code automatically runs better with new releases.


    http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2...


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  2. By Kevin Ryan on May. 27, 2008

    YUI is not a framework - it is a collection/library of components that you can reuse in any application. Excellent code and documentation but it doesn't compile javascript like GWT does


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