[Cialug] java web toolkits

[Tony Bibbs]

We're using Yahoo's YUI library, http://developer.yahoo.com/yui.

It's unique in that the documentation is pretty extensive.  For the specific example you gave they have a connection manager that makes the asych calls and then all that is left to write is the dom manipulation to insert your data into the drop down.

We're using YUI because it is JS-only which works well in our mixed environment (Java, PHP, .NET).  If you have lots of different types of use for AJAX you'd probably be wise to go with GWT especially given you do more Java than anything else.  If you plan on doing only a few AJAX-type things but do them over and over again then I'd recommend something like YUI.

If you go the YUI route I've got plenty of examples I can probably share in addition to the ones Yahoo! provides.

--Tony

----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:06:39 AM
Subject: [Cialug] java web toolkits



I've got a large webapp that I have written using Struts. I'm putting
 in 
new features and would like to have some new features like having one 
dropdown box repopulate choices based on the selection in a different 
box, etc. Is it worthwhile to try and shoehorn a full toolkit like GWT 
into my functional app or just manually do the javascript to accomplish
 
what I want.

dave

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