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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...

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