[Tfug] Browser based UI's

[Joshua Zeidner]

 Flex is a similar idea to GWT, but is not open source.

 -jmz

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM, keith smith<klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> If you want to create a browser based application and make it easier to create, why not use Flex?
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> Keith Smith
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> --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Browser based UI's
>> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 9:57 AM
>>   this is a good point, but
>> historically the commercial browser
>> environment resisted the introduction of java to the
>> UI.  GWT is an
>> interesting evolution in that it relies on web standards
>> like HTML and
>> Javascript.  There are many situations I see where
>> people are building
>> web apps for a limited user set and would probably save a
>> lot of money
>> just by deploying in Java.
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>>   -jmz
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>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Bexley Hall<bexley401 at yahoo.com>
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>> > Hi,
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>> >>   have you tried GWT?
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>> > But that's part of the issue.  What's the point of a
>> browser
>> > based interface if you have to rewrite all your
>> applications in
>> > Java?  I.e., to me, the beauty of a browser interface
>> would
>> > be that it could represent a "dumb client" and leave
>> all the
>> > smarts server side.  If you're going to deliver the
>> application
>> > to the client (instead of just the *interface*), then
>> why not just
>> > build a VM that runs on bare iron and code directly in
>> that
>> > (and skip talking to http://localhost).
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