Mar 16 2009
Google Web Toolkit: AJAX development that doesn’t hurt.
The world of web user interface frameworks is in a continuous movement. If you look at the landscape starting from HTML forms through Struts and Tapestry to the latest achievements like Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight you will see a big demand to make the web applications to look and feel like a genuine desktop software. The former frameworks represent the request-response approach and the latter group I call heavy weight fighters is providing a sandboxed environment (plugin you have to instal in browser prior to use the application) within browser space. Between those two endpoints there is a growing group of AJAX based frameworks gaining more and more popularity with every day. So far they prove to be the best solution for web interface you can choose today. Because its JavaScript in guts there is no plugins required, applications are running smoothly in any modern browsers and developers have access to environment rich enough to build a complex user interface mimicking desktop software. And remember it is AJAX – there is no need to reload page to fetch a batch of fresh data from the server side.
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