I have long been looking for a search application that is written using the Google Web Toolkit (preferably with Eclipse). I am looking for a complete web application with a database and stuff like the following codeplex program, which is written in ASP.NET and has a login system: http://mvcmusicstore.codeplex.com/
I found several other sites, but they do not contain the exact data that I need:
http://code.google.com/p/gwt-examples/wiki/project_MySQLConn
http://code.google.com/intl/nl/webtoolkit/examples/
I want to learn GWT because I think it has great advantages.
- Create (good and cross-browser compatible (> IE6,> FF ~ 2.0,> chrome1)) server-side JavaScript for the client, which will save processor cycles on the server.
- Use Java on a server (instead of C # with ASP.NET), which can be freely used and deployed, and is a good OO language.
- Program and testing in other OSs than windows (LAMP server, free :))
- HTML5 support, which can be used as a replacement for flash / silverlight animations to save bandwidth.
- Eclipse has a visual designer plugin (GPE) where you can place widgets and work like WPF / Silverlight, where I already have experience with
- Widgets are great, and I expect them to work as WPF / Silverlight equivalents (stack panels, grids, etc.)
- Google uses it (so it should be great: P)
Some disadvantages, in my opinion:
- No good support for VS2010 (super IDE, of course)
- Not many users like ASP.NET or PHP (?), So less good code examples for searching
- Do not many think? Maybe some minor debugging problems due to generated JavaScript
Please criticize this as much as possible;)
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