I watched this video recording from EclipseCon 2009 and I think it is a great primer for these two technologies. Dan and Mark from Instantiations do a great job laying out most of the pros and cons for them. The recording is 37 minutes long and I think it is more than worth the time.
Reference recording is here.
Short URL: http://bit.ly/11XUHR0
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Interesting but some questions always hit me with those frameworks, RAP particularily : why deploy so much energy to recreate a rich client application in a browser when rich client are easy to install/deploy/manage ? I mean, isn’t that a “geek” effort in the end ?
This JEE world is facinating, you can spend 100% of your time looking at frameworks, each one pretending to be the revolution, the framework that will make complex JEE look simple etc etc… This has been lasting for a long time (since Struts maybe) and still, the next one will pretend that all the previous one were too complex, too slow, too intrusive…
funny
The biggest blocker for many enterprises is software that gets installed. It is very expensive to push out new software to the desktop.
@Bob : but there are so many deployment tools nowadays that work perfectly. I’d be very curious to compare the additional cost of doing a “rich” web application to the cost of such a deployement software. At a company I work for, they can deploy anything to any computer very easily. I understand there can be problems with remote people etc…
Let’s hope Notes get even better at “server managed client” then