A quickie session at Devoxx ’08 by Matthias Lübken was all about developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) if you are a Plain Old Java Developer (POJD). Matthias spoke of his wish to build RIAs without having to spend too much time learning new languages or technologies. He stumbled upon a route that let him leverage his existing Java skills
- On the client side, he used Google Web Toolkit (GWT) since it is a Java to JavaScript compiler. I’ve never used it myself but have seen it in use in the latest interface to Mule Galaxy and liked what I saw. Being more of a server-side man myself, I think I’ll take a little longer to get up to speed with this than Mathias did.
- On the server side, he used Grails since it is very similar to Java and he didn’t have to learn much. I would have chosen Mule for server-side processing but it really does depend on your use case.
I had the occasion to speak to a Flex developer too so now I’m wondering what Mule developers use for front ends – GWT? Flex? Anything else?
Hi all,
Just found this thought-provoking blog post by Shashank Tiwari: http://shanky.org/2008/12/10/flex-or-flash/
Thought I’d share
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