Building RIA - Comparison between Adobe Flex and GWT - Hu Shunjie

Building RIA - Comparison between Google GWT and Adobe Flex Comparison between Google GWT and Adobe Flex

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Hu Shunjie

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Building RIA - Comparison between Google GWT and Adobe Flex Comparison between Google GWT and Adobe Flex Development Perspective User Perspective

Tools Eclipse w Flex Builder Plugin Eclipse w GWT Plugin MXML / Actionscript CSS for Style / Effect Java CSS for Style / Effect Good for beginners Higher learning curve

Effects / Animation Better Rendering Engine Basic Animation with GWT-FX Bitmap Handling Basic Drag and Drop with GWT-DnD Win - but really depends on application type

Server interaction Building in HTTP Services Use of Restlet for effective PUT / DELETE / GET / POST Can use JSON-P with JQuery Require JSON-P in some case Build in RPC services Use AMF for RPC services Tie

Debugging Flash Player Debugging GWT Hosted Browser Support for breakpoints, variables watching Support unit testing Support build automation Tie

Compiled into SWF Compiled into obfus’d JS Can be deploy as web/desktop web / offline with Google gears support Deployment Lack for mobile support Working for IPhone

User Perspective Memory Issues Good Memory Handling Works across browsers Glitches on...IE.. Different Look and Feel Web App Look and Feel

Coming Next.. Flex 4 GWT 2.0 Flash Catalyst Advance with Flash Player Optimization Code Splitting Advance with HTML

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