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Using GWT’s Hyperlink widget

Posted by: Joshua on: October 24, 2008

Okay, so here’s the problem what I faced recently. I’m doing a research on using GWT because we’re currently evaluating whether or not to use GWT in the future. I am trying to use GWT and stuck on using the Hyperlink widget. There were two problems that I faced:

First I need to figure out how [...]

A glimpse of Wicket 1.4 and Tapestry 5

Posted by: Joshua on: September 11, 2008

It has been a long time since Struts first showed up and filled in the Java web framework space. Many people nowadays are still using Struts which mainly because of legacy and investments reasons. But more people are moving away towards component based frameworks these days. JSF has got to be the most popular component [...]

Why you should consider Tapestry 5

Posted by: Joshua on: August 21, 2008

Tapestry 5.0.14 has been out recently and the Tapestry community is very excited with this news because Tapestry 5 is only one step away for being GA. In case you haven’t heard of T5, it’s an opensource component based web framework which is a total revamp from the previous version. Some people may not like [...]

Feedback for Comparing JVM Web Frameworks

Posted by: Joshua on: November 16, 2007

I’ve written a feedback for Matt’s presentation since at the time being I’m also doing a research on several web framework.
Thing should be noted out:
Seam is tightly coupled with JSF. Matt wrote in the Seam point that JSF as one of the cons for Seam. Though he didn’t quite explained in detail regarding this point. [...]

In response to: Choosing a JVM Web Framework

Posted by: Joshua on: August 24, 2007

Matt Raible has written a blog entry on choosing web framework by categorizing it into types of application. He wrote 3 category:

Consumer-facing, high-traffic, stateless applications
Internal, more desktop-like applications that are stateful
Media-rich applications that require a RIA framework like Flex

With these web-framework that falls on each category:

Struts 2, Spring MVC, Stripes
JSF, Tapestry, Wicket
GWT, Flex, OpenLaszlo

I agree [...]