Mozammel’s Blog

I took a presentation on GWT few weeks back and wanted to share the presentation files. So here they are… might be useful to those who have just started learning GWT.

Google Web Toolkit Presentation

GWT Tutorial Files

Just installed Debian 4.0 (etch) on my laptop (clean net install) and fixed all my development environment there. But surprisingly I found that none of the gwt sample application, and my gwt applications were running on the bundled hosted browser provided with GWT.  I was getting an error relating to: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError .

The following two commands solved the problem. May be helpful for someone else searching for solution.

apt-get install libstdc++5

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/gwt-linux-1.3.3/mozilla-1.7.12

I’ve been struggling to choose between GWT and OpenLaszlo for last couple of days for the frontend of my next AJAX application. It was a tough choice because OpenLaszlo seems more matured and stable where GWT adds the UI management at the tip of a Java developer.

Being a Java developer myself, it is hard to neglect the flexibility offered by GWT. Though much responsive, and polished UI can be developed using OpenLaszlo within short period of time, at the current moment, GWT seems the right choice for my next AJAX application. OpenLaszlo has an XML/ECMAScript based UI designing language. Implementing the application with OpenLaszlo means adding an extra steep learning curve for the people who will be managing/developing my application further. In case of GWT, any java developer will be able to pick up the codes within reasonable time and thus continue the development.

So, ultimately after exploiting the possibilities and flexibilities with these two UI frameworks, GWT won the upper-hand due to its Java based UI developments, and flexibility offered for the Java developer community.