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SmartGWT out of beta : v1.1 Released (13 messages)
- Posted by: Sanjiv Jivan
- Posted on: May 28 2009 07:43 EDT
SmartGWT is a framework that allows you to not only utilize its comprehensive widget library for your application UI, but also tie these widgets in with your server-side for data management. SmartGWT is based on the powerful and mature SmartClient library. SmartGWT is open source software licensed under standard LGPL terms. SmartGWT 1.1 has just been released. Updated Showcase : http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/ The new samples can be found under the "New Samples" side nav item. Release announcement : SmartGWT 1.1 Released This release has numerous enhancements with over 100 new APIs. Some of the key features of this release are :- Support for GWT-RPC DataSource with any DataBound component like Grid, Tree, Calendar, Miller Columns etc
- i18n support with resource bundles for 14 locales.
- Formula and Summary fields: built-in wizards for end users to define formula fields that can compute values using other fields, or summary fields that can combine other fields with intervening / surrounding text. Available in all DataBoundComponents, easy to persist as preferences.
- Various performance improvements
- API's to save and restore the display and selection state of various components to/from the server in a serializable format
- Significant javadoc improvements
Threaded Messages (13)
- Great Work. by Alan Roche on May 28 2009 11:10 EDT
- license by Giovanni De Facci on May 28 2009 18:18 EDT
- Re: license by Raffaele Guidi on May 28 2009 18:26 EDT
- license by Giovanni De Facci on May 29 2009 05:21 EDT
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Both SmartGWT & SmartClient Commercial License by Andreu Ciordia on June 01 2009 07:13 EDT
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even the free SmartGWT is better than alternatives by Charles Kendrick on June 01 2009 03:28 EDT
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More Better GWT Alternatives than SmartGWT does by Andreu Ciordia on June 01 2009 10:14 EDT
- Re: More Better GWT Alternatives than SmartGWT does by Robert S on June 01 2009 10:35 EDT
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SmartGWT has many more features by Charles Kendrick on June 30 2009 11:20 EDT
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Re: SmartGWT has many more features?? by Andreu Ciordia on July 09 2009 07:31 EDT
- Yes it does, and it's very obvious by Charles Kendrick on July 13 2009 09:36 EDT
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Re: SmartGWT has many more features?? by Andreu Ciordia on July 09 2009 07:31 EDT
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More Better GWT Alternatives than SmartGWT does by Andreu Ciordia on June 01 2009 10:14 EDT
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even the free SmartGWT is better than alternatives by Charles Kendrick on June 01 2009 03:28 EDT
- Re: license by Raffaele Guidi on May 28 2009 18:26 EDT
- Getting better by Dimitris Menounos on June 02 2009 10:12 EDT
- Re: Getting better by Sanjiv Jivan on June 03 2009 10:54 EDT
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Great Work.[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Alan Roche
- Posted on: May 28 2009 11:10 EDT
- in response to Sanjiv Jivan
Well done. I've been using SmartGWT for a while now, and to say the least it is a pleasure to use, with an active community and responsive forums. If like me, you prefer to use tried and tested Object Oriented techniques over XML hell, have a good look at Smart GWT. -
license[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Giovanni De Facci
- Posted on: May 28 2009 18:18 EDT
- in response to Sanjiv Jivan
Maybe SmartGWT is open sourse, however smartclient (http://www.smartclient.co) is not. Should I buy a smartclient license to use smartgwt?SmartGWT is open source software licensed under standard LGPL terms. -
Re: license[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Raffaele Guidi
- Posted on: May 28 2009 18:26 EDT
- in response to Giovanni De Facci
Maybe SmartGWT is open sourse, however smartclient is not
Beeeeep - wrong! See http://www.smartclient.com/product/download.jsp :SmartClient LGPL (free and open source - works with any server)
Smartclient is too good to be true but indeed it is free. Regards, Raffaele -
license[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Giovanni De Facci
- Posted on: May 29 2009 05:21 EDT
- in response to Raffaele Guidi
Thanks Raffaele. I tried to use smartclient some times ago and at that time it was not open source. I was missing that releases after 6.0 are LGPL. thanks again. regards G -
Both SmartGWT & SmartClient Commercial License[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Andreu Ciordia
- Posted on: June 01 2009 07:13 EDT
- in response to Raffaele Guidi
Of course, there is no free lunch ;) The company behind SmartClient is not running for charity. The LGPL edition is best for "open source projects & hobbyists." (according to their official website: http://www.smartclient.com/product/index.jsp) This open source edition has only about 1/3 features of Pro or Enterprise edition. Pro edition start from $745 per developer. -
even the free SmartGWT is better than alternatives[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Charles Kendrick
- Posted on: June 01 2009 15:28 EDT
- in response to Andreu Ciordia
Hello Andreu, You're correct that the Pro and Enterprise versions have many, many invaluable features. However, the free version (SmartGWT LGPL) is already extremely popular because it offers more breadth and depth of features than any alternative GWT framework. Pro & Enterprise simply give you yet more. The availability of commercial editions of SmartGWT allows us to invest more in feature development, which is necessarily spread across the free and commercial versions (notice how the majority of new features announced here http://blog.isomorphic.com/?p=130 are for the free version). So purchasing Pro or Enterprise is an opportunity to buy cutting edge commercial tools and support free, open source software at the same time. -
More Better GWT Alternatives than SmartGWT does[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Andreu Ciordia
- Posted on: June 01 2009 22:14 EDT
- in response to Charles Kendrick
Ext GWT is definitely much more popular and cheaper than smartGWT. As SmartClient official website suggests, SmartGWT LGPL free edition is for open source projects and hobbyists. Not for me. -
Re: More Better GWT Alternatives than SmartGWT does[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Robert S
- Posted on: June 01 2009 22:35 EDT
- in response to Andreu Ciordia
You probably haven't had a look at the smartgwt showcase that was built using the LGPL version. It offers everything that GXT provides plus more. Having worked with both frameworks I can tell you from personal experience the codebase of SmartGWT is more robust than GXT and has fewer bugs. -
SmartGWT has many more features[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Charles Kendrick
- Posted on: June 30 2009 23:20 EDT
- in response to Andreu Ciordia
ExtGWT is not cheaper. The free version of SmartGWT has many more features than the paid version of ExtGWT. Just compare the showcases for the two products and it's very obvious. That's one reason so many ExtGWT users are looking at switching to SmartGWT. The other reason people are switching is that ExtGWT falls over in heavy-duty use cases like large, editable grids that SmartGWT handles easily. SmartGWT is the more complete, more robust technology. There's a simple reason our website says the LGPL version is for hobbyists: it's a no-brainer for a professional developer to buy Pro. Your time is worth money and you shouldn't be spending it re-inventing features that already exist in Pro. However, any edition of SmartGWT is a better choice for enterprise application development than ExtGWT. -
Re: SmartGWT has many more features??[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Andreu Ciordia
- Posted on: July 09 2009 07:31 EDT
- in response to Charles Kendrick
More better features than SmartGWT? Ha! Look closer at ExtGWT website. So many ExtGWT users are switching to SmartGWT?? Please speak in numbers! Compare the web traffic on Alexa or any other tools. You will find who is the obvious winner. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/extjs.com+www.smartclient.com -
Yes it does, and it's very obvious[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Charles Kendrick
- Posted on: July 13 2009 21:36 EDT
- in response to Andreu Ciordia
By all means, compare the two websites, as I've been suggesting all along. ExtGWT Showcase: about 60 samples, mostly dummy data and flat files http://extjs.com/explorer/ SmartGWT Showcase: about 300 samples, most databound http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/ SmartGWT Pro/EE Showcase: about 60 additional samples, in-depth Hibernate, Spring, SQL and WSDL binding http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwtee/showcase/ If you look at other discussions, you can see that most people take it as a given that SmartGWT has much greater breadth and depth. As far as traffic, do you want volume or quality? People often comment that the SmartClient Forums are a more effective resource. Ext attracts a large proportion of people building simple web sites rather than enterprise applications, and all the traffic is mixed together. If you're an enterprise developer, that extra volume is just noise you need to sift through. Try a few sample searches on the two forums and see where you're getting better, more relevant information. -
Getting better[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Dimitris Menounos
- Posted on: June 02 2009 10:12 EDT
- in response to Sanjiv Jivan
I think SmartGWT has had 2 problems: 1. It did not look professional enough (fixed) 2. It feels sluggish - a lot! I am glad #1 has been fixed with the 'enterprise' theme, speed however remains a major issue. It kind of feels slightly faster than a server side framework though much slower than lets say ExtJS / GXT and even more slower than pure GWT. In addition, the showcase could do better with a less overwhelming set of examples. ExtJS are doing a better job exposing, or 'selling', their solution with fewer examples and to the spot. -
Re: Getting better[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Sanjiv Jivan
- Posted on: June 03 2009 10:54 EDT
- in response to Dimitris Menounos
Dimitris - Thanks for the feedback. SmartGWT / SmartClient is actually pretty fast. It's the lack of sprites in the Enterprise theme that makes it appear a little slower but its far from being as slow as any server side framework. Users can decide this for themselves. You'll notice that the Fleet theme, while not as polished as the Enterprise theme, is a lot faster as it uses limited media and is a lot more lightweight. Incorporating sprites / ImageBundles is a high priority and when this happens, the responsiveness will improve a fair bit without any change in user code. Regarding the showcase, it's hard to keep all users happy. The "Featured Samples" in the Showcase is intended to highlight key features with a smaller subset of samples. The casual user can browse through these 20 odd samples to get a flavor of what SmartGWT has to offer. We found that having over 250 samples covering most common usecases helps users a lot as they can essentially learn by example. This app also serves as an example of a real world larger application as it pretty much uses all the components in SmartGWT and users can get a sense of what to expect in terms of performance as their application grows.