Thoughts on web application frameworks

Here’s a brain dump of my current thoughts on Web Frameworks:

• Click with OpenRico. A simple and effective however there are some gaps for more complex flows. Some good OpenRico examples for simple DHTML effects and AJAX.
• Wicket. More complicated than Click and generates less HTML for you. However, it would work well with Web designers – templates are valid XHTML. I like it but the documentation leaves something to be desired.

On the radar is JSF, GWT, Tibco GI, Yahoo UI, Dojo:

• JSF with an open source stack of MyFaces+Tomahawk + Facelets (templating to avoid JSP)
  • consider JBoss Seam for scoping beans
  • Perhaps with Exadel Eclipse Plugin

    JBoss have recently open sourced this plugin – perhaps they purchased Exadel? (Only found out a couple of nights ago about that one)

  • Consider Netbeans. It has some good JSF support.
• GWT. Looks great for single-page web applications like Gmail.

will update again soon…

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