Pibb – Commercial App that Uses GWT on the Client Side

Dietrich Kappe, Thursday, May 24, 2007 @ 5:32 am

I almost missed this article in Ajax Magazine about Pibb, a commercial Ajax-based communications center (chat, channels, etc.). The client is all GWT and uses a Python web server and some Ruby for data persistence. That's right, no Java GWT services on the back end. The money quote from the article:

When asked about the choice of GWT precisely and not any other JavaScript library, Grant explained "I would hate to think of tracking down the silly bugs that the compiler catches just using the tools available in the browser. There are javascript debuggers out there, but they are pretty painful. GWT also has a special "hosted-mode" browser that you can use to get full tracebacks when errors occur".

Well said. For anyone who has felt the pain of Firefox/IE6/IE7/Safari debugging, we feel your pain.

 
  Technorati : ajax, gwt, pibb, python, ruby

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