Posts Tagged ‘grails’
Grails + ExtJs
Looking at the beginnings of a new webapp. I’m heavily leaning towards Grails+ExtJs, even though the ExtJs plugin has been discontinued because of the license change. Honestly, paying for developer licenses is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. For widgets, dojo seems to be a runner-up, however it just doesn’t feel as polished, and I find the experience somewhat lacking. I wish jquery had a more mature & official widget set, because it would be my first choice.
In my previous project, we used JSF 1.2 + RichFaces. While I feel that combination can produce good results, it didn’t feel very agile. On a new JSF project going forward, I would recommend Seam; however it is not worth the effort to retrofit a large project.
James Lorenzen has a post about how to roll your own ExtJs plugin for grails, which I will probably give a shot.
With JSF, we were pushing markup down to the browser using ajax polling & rerendering of components. However, I want to start using RESTful services along with Comet. This should get interesting…
