This presentation is about two popular web development frameworks, including a comparison of their features. This presentation by Ievgen Kotsiubynskyi (Junior Software Engineer, GlobalLogic) was delivered at GlobalLogic Java Conference in Krakow on December 12, 2015.

1. ©2015 GlobalLogic Inc.

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GWT & Angular
Relatives or Foes

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• What are GWT and Angular
• Why these tools appeared
• Features Comparison
• Who rules
• The future of GWT
• Questions
Agenda

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Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source set
of tools that allows web developers to create and
maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications
in Java.
GWT version 1.0 was released on May 16, 2006.
GWT

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AngularJS is an open-source web application framework
mainly maintained by Google. It aims to simplify both the
development and the testing of such applications by
providing a framework for client-side model–view–controller
(MVC) and model–view–viewmodel (MVVM) architectures,
along with components commonly used in rich Internet
applications.
Angular

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Why these tools appeared

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GWT Sample

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Angular Sample

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Features Comparison
Angular GWT
SPA + +
Dependency Injection + - (use lib com.google.gin)
MVC/MVP + - (use GWTP)
Compiler + +
Google + +
Bidirectional model-view
binding + -
Widgets - (use any) + (use GXT)
Speed of learning + -

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Who rules

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The future of GWT
or “Is GWT dead?”

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Questions