On Dec 12, 2007 6:06 AM, Dave Weis <<a href="mailto:djweis@internetsolver.com">djweis@internetsolver.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I've got a large webapp that I have written using Struts. I'm putting in<br>new features and would like to have some new features like having one<br>dropdown box repopulate choices based on the selection in a different
<br>box, etc. Is it worthwhile to try and shoehorn a full toolkit like GWT<br>into my functional app or just manually do the javascript to accomplish<br>what I want.<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">We kind of went through this discussion in the PHP users group meeting
a few months ago... the question can be boiled down to, "Is it worth
while to use a framework?"<br>
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The answers were varied, but (correct me if I'm wrong) can be summarized as:<br>
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* It's usually quicker to just write the code, but<br>
* Investing the time to learn a framework pays off in the end (I found Tony's presentation to be especially convincing)<br>
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The frameworks we were talking about were PHP/RoR/Django but I think
this conversation is equally suited to ajaxy toolkits as well.<br>
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So if you think you'll have to do several things like this, pick a
toolkit and learn it. If you don't do this kind of stuff often, just
write the code.<br><br>I won't comment on GWT specifically since I've only evaluated it. However, if you like writing java more than you like writing javascript it seems like a good choice.<br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum
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