-- <br />Frank W. Zammetti<br />Founder and Chief Software Architect<br />Omnytex Technologies<br /><a href="http://www.omnytex.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.omnytex.com</a><br />AIM/Yahoo: fzammetti<br />MSN: [email protected]<br />Author of "Practical Ajax Projects With Java Technology"<br /> (2006, Apress, ISBN 1-59059-695-1)<br />and "JavaScript, DOM Scripting and Ajax Projects"<br /> (2007, Apress, ISBN 1-59059-816-4)<br />Java Web Parts - <a href="http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net</a><br /> Supplying the wheel, so you don't have to reinvent it!
Any web toolkit or framework isn't going to allow you the full range of UI available to desktop applications. They still run in the browser and are still bound by the limitations of DHTML and HTTP.Originally posted by Brent Sterling:
I was developing much better user interfaces in VB and C++ 10 years ago
Again, be it DWR, GWT or whatever else you may choose to employ, they don't magically make the browsers do anything they're not already capable of. What they may do (and I stress "may" because I find many fall short of their promises) is to create wifty UI's based on DHTML without you having to write a bunch of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. But when it all comes down to it, it's still DHTML and HTTP.back to creating easy to use, rich interfaces that are not chained down by the limitation of browsers and html.
DWR is still bound by the HTTP request cycle; it just cleverly uses Ajax to help your code pretend that you're not.I might just have to look a little closer at DWR to see how I can move beyond the request/response cycle.
-- <br />Frank W. Zammetti<br />Founder and Chief Software Architect<br />Omnytex Technologies<br /><a href="http://www.omnytex.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.omnytex.com</a><br />AIM/Yahoo: fzammetti<br />MSN: [email protected]<br />Author of "Practical Ajax Projects With Java Technology"<br /> (2006, Apress, ISBN 1-59059-695-1)<br />and "JavaScript, DOM Scripting and Ajax Projects"<br /> (2007, Apress, ISBN 1-59059-816-4)<br />Java Web Parts - <a href="http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net</a><br /> Supplying the wheel, so you don't have to reinvent it!
You'll get no argument from me. The financial web app I work on in my day job was specifically designed to resemble a desktop application as much as possible.Originally posted by Brent Sterling:
Whether having desktop-like web application (like Gmail) running in a browser is a good thing or not
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-- <br />Frank W. Zammetti<br />Founder and Chief Software Architect<br />Omnytex Technologies<br /><a href="http://www.omnytex.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.omnytex.com</a><br />AIM/Yahoo: fzammetti<br />MSN: [email protected]<br />Author of "Practical Ajax Projects With Java Technology"<br /> (2006, Apress, ISBN 1-59059-695-1)<br />and "JavaScript, DOM Scripting and Ajax Projects"<br /> (2007, Apress, ISBN 1-59059-816-4)<br />Java Web Parts - <a href="http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net</a><br /> Supplying the wheel, so you don't have to reinvent it!
Oh, I knew I was going to like you!Originally posted by Frank Zammetti:
Then again, they couldn't have paid me enough to write positively about JSF, but that wasn't your question I suppose![]()
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