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I used to scratch my head at the name for the JavaScript library qooxdoo. That's until I ran into the developers of the library at an Ajax Experience event in Boston a few years ago and they pronounced it "Kucks Du" as in "Was kucks du" or German for "what are you looking at?"
Beyond the basics, qooxdoo is a mature collection of JavaScript widgets, despite the authors' conservative versioning policy (they're still only at 0.8.3).
It's taken them long enough, but they've finally released a wrapper for GWT, named QxWT. Best of all, they have a commercial-friendly open source license. If you're put off by GXT and it's license, you owe yourself a look.
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Hi Dietrich,
great you enjoy this new project.
For the record: Kudos for QxWT solely go to Tom Schindl of bestsolution.at, who did a fantastic job on his own, i.e. without involvement of the qooxdoo core team. QxWT is an (yet another, but very promising) attempt of integrating GWT with qooxdoo. Lets see how we could jointly improve the existing solution in the future, there just wasn’t enough time to do so recently.
BTW, the idea of a Java-to-qooxdoo/JavaScript code transformation is fairly old. There is an qooxdoo contribution project by the similar name QWT (http://contrib.qooxdoo.org/project/qwt), that interestingly doesn’t require GWT (in fact its origins are older than GWT). To be fair, it somewhat stalled and IMHO isn’t ready for production. But I’m sure there’s quite some potential to leverage some of QWT’s ideas and tooling for the newer, GWT-based QxWT.
Comment by Andreas Ecker, Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 9:57 am