Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation
Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation
- Subject: Re: [OT] JS/AJAX toolkits evaluation
- From: Miguel Arroz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 15:48:23 +0100
Hi!
I'm using an old version of the Wonder AJAX Framework (before it
became Wonder!). I'm still using that because I did some
modifications (flexibility and security) that I don't want to loose.
One day I have to talk to someone to integrate this in Wonder! :)
In the JS side, I'm using Prototype and Scriptaulo, a LOT of code
made by me, and a bit of YUI, more exactly, YUI-EXT (for their drag-
and-drop tree that is simply amazing). Scriptcaulo has some lame
stuff, and many effects do not work correctly in complicated layouts,
but it's usable. YUI has very good docs, as mike referred, and has
great potential.
Dojo does not convince me either, mainly because of the reasons
mike referred. It looks like they care more about the feature count
than about the quality, and also, some stuff do not work on Safari.
Anyway, I think many of this libs is still far away from being
mature. If you want to do some serious AJAX stuff, get ready to code
a lot of JS. And I mean, a lot.
Yours
Miguel Arroz
On 2007/05/23, at 13:37, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
Sorry for an OT question.
Briefly got out of the black hole of backend development, and into
the much-hyped world of dynamic web UI. Need to make a decision on
a JavaScript toolkit to do various dynamic widgets for a set of web
applications.
A short version of the question: which toolkit? why?
A more long-winded version:
5-6 years ago there was WO and there was JSP/Struts (or EOF vs.
EJB, for another absurd comparison). For a person coming to the
market with no deep knowledge, it was easy to pick the later over
the former, if only because of marketing (or lack of thereof for
WO). So now I'd like to avoid picking "JSP of AJAX" so to speak.
So ... is there a "WO of AJAX" out there? What are the opinions on
the popular and less popular toolkits among the WO community? Dojo,
Google, YUI, anything else? Are they even as much different as WO
vs. JSP?
I am looking for an ability to do structured coding (as opposed to
traditional JS spaghetti), a set of reusable widgets, and ease of
integration with Java engines like WO or Tapestry (I know Tapestry
4.1 already bundles Dojo, still wanted to look at other options), ...
Appreciate the insights of the WO community.
Thanks
Andrus
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Andrus (aka Andrei) Adamchik
Apache Cayenne ORM: http://cayenne.apache.org/
Creator, VP Apache Software Foundation
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