joerg gross

JavaScript becomes more and more popular with HTML5 spreading over the Internet so I decided to refresh my JavaScript knowledge by attending the JavaScript Days in Berlin. Most of the tracks had been interesting and worth the money. Although I have been somewhat disapointed by the nodejs track. As I have been developed Java sever side components for many years I would have expected some more details and insights of nodejs in comparsion with other web/application server runtimes. Nevertheless JavaScript seems to be ready for the enterprise. Things like MVC, Dependency Injection, Unit Testinga and Components (with some kind of Dependency Management) are available in the JavaScript world - so professional software development with JavaScript is actually possible. When professional development is possible with JavaScript/HTML 5 why do we still need (complex) server side web presentation frameworks like they are so popular in the Java universe? I believe that JavaScript has a grea...

Always seeking for new trends in software development especially in the Java universe I found this post interesting. The strong increasing demand of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) was surprising me most although it is not widely spreaded in absolute figures. But after years of web development with Struts/JSP and XML-rendering I was lucky to learn (again) how comfortable GUI development could be using RCP/SWT in the current project. So its not surprising at all that GWT will be successful offering a convenient programming model. Although GWT is based on conventional web technolgoies like java script and html/css I'm not sure if this is really an advantage. In the meantime many users (like me too) are spoilt by rich GUI-features, such as offered by Flash or IPod/IPhone apps. GWT will always only offer as much features as java script and html/css in different browser will do. Other tools like Silverlight, Java FX and Adobe Flash/Flex offer a similar programming model with the ...